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Is Keir Starmer bold enough to succeed?

Tinkering is not an option – the Labour leader needs a radical programme to undo the damage wrought by the Conservatives.

By Martin Fletcher

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Taxing the childless would be an insult, not a solution

Taxing the childless would be an insult, not a solution

Rachel Cunliffe

The ethical dilemma of rebuilding Ukraine after the war

Ido Vock

Does anyone care about Cop27?

Sixty per cent of Brits earning £80,000-£100,000 say they’re “about average”

Anoosh Chakelian and Michael Goodier

US diplomat Marie Yovanovitch: “The Trump years did great damage”

The International Interview

US diplomat Marie Yovanovitch: “The Trump years did great damage”

Emily Tamkin

Margo Jefferson: “We were always performing desirable blackness”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Quickfire

Why no one wants to be a teacher anymore

Today 8:00 am

Why no one wants to be a teacher anymore

William Yates

Tony Blair's technophilia is a dead end for the left

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Tony Blair’s technophilia is a dead end for the left

Adrian Pabst

Politics

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

At the former PM’s Future of Britain conference, it felt as if the past 15 years of British politics never happened.

By Freddie Hayward

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Nicola Sturgeon has taken her biggest gamble

Nicola Sturgeon has taken her biggest gamble

Chris Deerin

What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne

Anoosh Chakelian

What did Boris Johnson know about Christopher Pincher before he appointed him?

Keir Starmer: If you don’t change your views, you won’t succeed

Freddie Hayward

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

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

Michael Howard

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

Louise Perry

Roe vs Wade has resonated widely – but the US is not the centre of the universe

Pravina Rudra

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

Philip Collins

In defence of centrism

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

How TS Eliot found happiness

Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second…

By Erica Wagner

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Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask

Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask

Lyse Doucet

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

How the empire degraded Britain

Laleh Khalili

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

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?

How will the end of Roe vs Wade transform America?

How will the end of Roe vs Wade transform America?

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

"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

How much longer can the government kick the TfL funding can down the road?

How much longer can the government kick the TfL funding can down the road?

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

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”

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