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How much longer can Boris Johnson survive?

If a majority of Tory MPs now oppose the Prime Minister, he will not last long in office.

By Harry Lambert

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Leader: Boris Johnson’s departure alone is not enough

Leader: Boris Johnson’s departure alone is not enough

New Statesman

Why Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak finally lost patience with Boris Johnson

Harry Lambert

Does anyone care about Cop27?

French Election 2022

Can Marine Le Pen wield power?

Ido Vock

How animal senses reveal hidden worlds

Book of the Day

How animal senses reveal hidden worlds

Mark Cocker

Can Ukraine win the war?

Lawrence Freedman

Quickfire

Republicans put US shootings down to anything but guns

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Republicans put US shootings down to anything but guns

Eoin Higgins

Stop anonymous briefings – government officials must be held accountable for their lies

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Stop anonymous briefings – government officials must be held accountable for their lies

James Ball

Politics

Is this the end for Boris Johnson?

Tory MPs expect others in the cabinet to follow Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid in resigning.

By Harry Lambert

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Will Starmer's "make Brexit work" strategy win over voters?

Will Starmer’s “make Brexit work” strategy win over voters?

Freddie Hayward

Nicola Sturgeon has taken her biggest gamble

Chris Deerin

What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne

Michael Howard’s Diary: Why I have no regrets over calling for Boris Johnson to resign

Michael Howard

Does Tony Blair’s new centrist project have any answers?

Does Tony Blair’s new centrist project have any answers?

Freddie Hayward

Commons Confidential

The Lib Dems name their price for a deal with Labour

Kevin Maguire

From Our Writers

Jeremy Cliffe

Nato’s “comeback” pivots on America’s troubled politics

Rachel Cunliffe

Taxing the childless would be an insult, not a solution

Pravina Rudra

How I learned to ditch Amazon and fall in love with books again

Freddie Hayward

Will Starmer’s “make Brexit work” strategy win over voters?

World

The Roe vs Wade decision is resonating in Europe

The US Supreme Court’s reversal of federal abortion law has rekindled debates over reproductive rights.

By Ido Vock

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Erdoğan exposes Nato’s mirage of unity

Erdoğan exposes Nato’s mirage of unity

Megan Gibson

Russia must lose this war

Jonathan Littell

Roe vs Wade and the land of lost liberty

Emily Tamkin and Katie Stallard

How Putin prepared elite troops for Ukraine

James Kilner

The new era of American darkness

The new era of American darkness

Jeremy Cliffe

“You have to say when things are wicked”: Chris Patten’s lessons from negotiating with China

Katie Stallard

Ideas

New York’s hipster wars

Nick Burns

China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes”

Gavin Jacobson

In the ruins of anti-fascist hegemony

In the ruins of anti-fascist hegemony

John Ganz

America’s crisis-industrial complex

Nikhil Pal Singh

My friend, the man who tried to kill Hitler

Raymond Geuss

Utopia in the age of climate crisis

Utopia in the age of climate crisis

Richard Seymour

Books and Culture

The purpose of sex

Lillian Fishman's bold and searching debut novel, Acts of Service, questions the meaning of desire and introduces a major new…

By Johanna Thomas-Corr

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How TS Eliot found happiness

Book of the Day

How TS Eliot found happiness

Erica Wagner

Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask

From Top Gun to Jurassic World: blockbuster cinema is back!

Pippa Bailey

Radio & Podcasts

What does it really mean to forgive?

Anna Leszkiewicz

The Undeclared War is truly clever TV

The Undeclared War is truly clever TV

Rachel Cooke

David Roberts: Victorian visions of the Holy Land

Michael Prodger

Podcasts

What Trump and Putin got wrong, with Marie Yovanovitch

What Trump and Putin got wrong, with Marie Yovanovitch

Keir Starmer: Labour is “starting from scratch”

Keir Starmer: Labour is “starting from scratch”

How to build a language: inside the Oxford English Dictionary - Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

How to build a language: inside the Oxford English Dictionary – Audio Long Reads

Pippa Bailey and Emma Haslett

What is behind Nicola Sturgeon’s IndyRef2 gambit?

What is behind Nicola Sturgeon’s IndyRef2 gambit?

Business and Economics

Could a new debt crisis split the eurozone?

Emma Haslett

Bankers’ bumper bonuses: why does the government want them back?

Emma Haslett

Why Britain's start-ups face an uncertain future

Why Britain’s start-ups face an uncertain future

Oscar Williams

Is recession the Bank of England’s only choice?

Emma Haslett

Is Brexit to blame for the UK’s extra inflation?

Will Dunn

No promotions and forced to load bags: why pilots are preparing to strike

No promotions and forced to load bags: why pilots are preparing to strike

Emma Haslett

Environment

How Tory governments left voters paying a duke’s heating bill

Philippa Nuttall

Can the Greens become more than a single MP party in England and Wales?

India Bourke

Why an end to economic growth is inevitable

Why an end to economic growth is inevitable

Philippa Nuttall

Does anyone care about Cop27?

Philippa Nuttall

The Environment Interview

“Engineers build the fabric of society. We need them in government”

Philippa Nuttall

Drought pulls Europe's farmers to the front line of a drying world

Drought pulls Europe’s farmers to the front line of a drying world

Philippa Nuttall

The Long Read

From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary

From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary

The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.

By Pippa Bailey

Magazine

American Darkness

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American Darkness

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The new era of American darkness

By Jeremy Cliffe

Roe vs Wade and the land of lost liberty

By Emily Tamkin and Katie Stallard

A new world order

By Jerome Roos

Spotlight

Relaxing nursery ratios is no answer to the cost-of-living crisis

Regional Development

Relaxing nursery ratios is no answer to the cost-of-living crisis

Neil Leitch

"The Tories are seen as increasingly anti-London", says Westminster's first Labour leader

Regional Development

“The Tories are seen as increasingly anti-London”, says Westminster’s first Labour leader

Jonny Ball

The pain of Americans is all too familiar to those of us in Northern Ireland

The pain of Americans is all too familiar to those of us in Northern Ireland

Clare Bailey

The Policy Ask with Cat Hobbs: “It turns out my mum was right all along – it’s all about balance”

Regional Development

The Policy Ask with Cat Hobbs: “It turns out my mum was right all along – it’s all about balance”

Spotlight