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Liz Truss’s tax U-turn has emboldened Tory dissenters

The party conference is a festival of discord and the next fight is brewing over plans to cut benefits.

By Freddie Hayward

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How should the US respond to a Russian nuclear attack?

How should the US respond to a Russian nuclear attack?

Anusar Farooqui

The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

Anna Leszkiewicz

The true cost of Liz Truss’s energy plan is dizzying

When will we be able to hope again?

Hannah Rose Woods

We can't consign Boris Johnson to history yet

Book of the Day

We can’t consign Boris Johnson to history yet

David Gauke

Liz Truss has already proved to be the worst Tory prime minister yet

Martin Fletcher

Quickfire

Universal Credit is cruel, inefficient and counterproductive – it must be scrapped

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Universal Credit is cruel, inefficient and counterproductive – it must be scrapped

Ben Ramanauskas

“We get it”: even the government uses the hollow language of corporate branding

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“We get it”: even the government uses the hollow language of corporate branding

Imogen West-Knights

Politics

Kwasi Kwarteng’s speech only revealed his contradictions

The Chancellor couldn’t decide whether the Tories had ended the UK’s decline or merely accelerated it.

By Freddie Hayward

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Fear and loathing at the Tory conference

Fear and loathing at the Tory conference

Charlotte Ivers

Can Liz Truss survive?

Andrew Marr

Kwasi Kwarteng forgot that radicalism needs to be matched by credibility

Will Liz Truss’s U-turn on the 45p tax rate be enough to save her premiership?

Rachel Wearmouth

Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

Jeremy Cliffe

Behind Keir Starmer’s plan for a national green energy firm

Rachel Wearmouth

From Our Writers

Anoosh Chakelian

As Britain faces a hard winter, the 1 per cent will get richer

David Gauke

The Conservatives are lost in a fantasy world and are a danger to the country

Paul Mason

The tax cut for top earners isn’t just immoral – it won’t work

India Bourke

The Tory “attack on nature” will undermine UK security

Ideas

Would there still have been climate change under socialism?

Leigh Phillips

Silence reigns

Rory Scothorne

Red love, for all

Red love, for all

Erin Maglaque

What is to be done about money?

Geoff Mann

Writing in the age of Big Data

Ryan Ruby

Metaverse in retrograde

Metaverse in retrograde

Justin EH Smith

World

What could happen if Russia used nuclear weapons?

Russia's state Duma has approved the annexation of Ukrainian regions, will Putin now use nuclear weapons to hold these areas?

By Emily Tamkin

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Lula vs Bolsonaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained

Lula vs Bolsonaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained

Phil Clarke Hill

How Mahsa Amini’s death set Iran on fire

Megan Gibson

Ukrainians stand firm in the face of Putin’s threats

Alix Kroeger

From the US, the UK’s economic policy appears senseless

Ed Price

The unravelling of Vladimir Putin

The unravelling of Vladimir Putin

Katie Stallard

Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist party triumphs in the Italian election

Jeremy Cliffe

Books and Culture

Why “Jerusalem” is the anthem England needs

William Blake’s poem, set to music by Hubert Parry, is viewed by some as patriotic, and others as a progressive…

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The vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams

The vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Rowan Williams

Lucian Freud’s pitiless style

Mind-reading for TikTok teens

Rachel Cunliffe

The raucous return of Pussy Riot

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Inside Man is the TV equivalent of a game of chess

Inside Man is the TV equivalent of a game of chess

Rachel Cooke

Industry is porn posing as prestige TV

Ann Manov

Podcasts

Labour is in an anti-London "Tory trap": Sadiq Khan vs Andy Burnham

Labour is in an anti-London “Tory trap”: Sadiq Khan vs Andy Burnham

What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics - Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics – Audio Long Reads

Jeremy Cliffe and Rachel Cunliffe

Inside Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s economic meltdown, with David Gauke and Duncan Weldon

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Inside Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s economic meltdown, with David Gauke and Duncan Weldon

What does Giorgia Meloni’s triumph mean for Italy?

What does Giorgia Meloni’s triumph mean for Italy?

Business and Economics

Bruce Daisley: “Twitter wasn’t set up to be about anger and rage”

Oscar Williams

“There’s only so much money you can spend”: why high fliers hate the top-rate tax cut

Emma Haslett

What the UK’s financial crisis means for your pension

What the UK’s financial crisis means for your pension

Emma Haslett

Why Amazon is raising the price of Prime in a cost-of-living crisis

Oscar Williams

Financial markets have rejected the Tories’ economic vandalism

Will Dunn

The Bank of England is right to hold its nerve

The Bank of England is right to hold its nerve

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

Fracking is a distraction that won’t lower gas prices

Energy and Climate Change

Fracking is a distraction that won’t lower gas prices

Ruth Edwards

The Policy Ask with Clare Moriarty: “Renters have fewer options for lowering energy bills”

Energy and Climate Change

The Policy Ask with Clare Moriarty: “Renters have fewer options for lowering energy bills”

Spotlight

As prices rise, support for disabled people faces a £1bn shortfall

As prices rise, support for disabled people faces a £1bn shortfall

Polly Bindman

"We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool

Regional Development

“We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool

Jonny Ball

Environment

Five reasons Jacob Rees-Mogg is unfit to tackle the climate emergency

India Bourke

Can we save the Amazon rainforest from environmental destruction?

Nick Ferris

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Ben van der Merwe and India Bourke

Save the planet by saving the pandas

Martha Gill

For king and countryside: William must surpass his father’s green legacy

India Bourke

Fracking and oil drilling doesn't just fail Britain, it fails the world

Fracking and oil drilling doesn’t just fail Britain, it fails the world

India Bourke

The Long Read

Notes on a mourning nation

Notes on a mourning nation

On the streets of London after the Queen’s death, our writer found grief, apathy – and a startling sense of…

By Matthew Engel

Magazine

The Truss Delusion

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Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

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The unravelling of Vladimir Putin

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How Mahsa Amini’s death set Iran on fire

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