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Boris Johnson hasn’t got the “big calls” right

Brexit, Covid and Ukraine all reveal further failures by the Prime Minister, not successes.

By Martin Fletcher

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The inside story of a Tory MP’s 30p meals – which cost £50 up front

The inside story of a Tory MP’s 30p meals – which cost £50 up front

Anoosh Chakelian and Phil Clarke Hill

Why is the right losing everywhere?

George Eaton

Partner content

Why now is the time to propel healthcare into the next era

Five ways the government failed to shield the UK from inflation

Will Dunn

North Korea's Covid-19 catastrophe

North Korea’s Covid-19 catastrophe

Katie Stallard

Mumsnet’s founder Justine Roberts: “It is a place where women can speak the truth”

Sophie McBain

Quickfire

A windfall tax is not unconservative

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A windfall tax is not unconservative

Robert Halfon

Monkeypox is not a gay virus. Haven't we been here before?

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Monkeypox is not a gay virus. Haven’t we been here before?

Charlotte Kilpatrick

From Our Writers

Jonn Elledge

Austerity was never popular, it just happened to other people

Freddie Hayward

Rail strike threat exposes government failure

Martha Gill

We attract the worst people into power, then hand them opportunities to abuse it

Louise Perry

Playing language games with sex obscures the reality of rape and abuse

Politics

The Palace of Westminster is falling down, just like our political system

We are close to a real chance for reform. It is being caused not by pamphlets or seminars, but the right people – the voters.

By Andrew Marr

Photo of The Palace of Westminster is falling down, just like our political system

Rishi Sunak must urgently do more for the poorest

Rishi Sunak must urgently do more for the poorest

David Gauke

David Miliband: “Only brilliant people win from the centre left”

Harry Lambert

What if Keir Starmer’s gamble backfires?

Can Scottish Labour ever hope to challenge the SNP?

Chris Deerin

The Conservative Party is lost

The Conservative Party is lost

Philip Collins

Is Jeremy Hunt Johnson’s most dangerous Tory rival?

Harry Lambert

World

Labor’s win in Australia isn’t decisive – but it marks a major political shift

The spectacular defeat of Scott Morrison exposes the long-term decline of both of the country’s main parties.

By Tim Soutphommasane

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Progressive politics and Jewish values on the campaign trail

Progressive politics and Jewish values on the campaign trail

Emily Tamkin

How Vladimir Putin weaponised the environment in Ukraine

Philippa Nuttall

America has learned nothing from its million Covid deaths

Charlotte Kilpatrick

Russia’s Black Sea blockade is a problem for the whole world

Lawrence Freedman

China’s repression of Uyghurs extends far beyond its own borders

China’s repression of Uyghurs extends far beyond its own borders

Bradley Jardine

The second coming of Nato

Adam Tooze

Ideas

How the Greek revolution made the modern world

Nick Burns

After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis

Adam Tooze

Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong's struggle explains our world

Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong’s struggle explains our world

Yangyang Cheng

What does Europe’s right want?

David Broder

Tell us who you really are, Keir Starmer

Richard Seymour

Philosophy's gentle giant

Philosophy’s gentle giant

Jeremy Waldron

Books and Culture

The pop stars tackling the climate cost of live music

From Billie Eilish to Brian Eno, musicians are increasingly determined to reverse the environmental damage caused by touring.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

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Where the internet went wrong – and how we can reboot it

Book of the Day

Where the internet went wrong – and how we can reboot it

William Davies

The Victorians in The Essex Serpent are as far-fetched as the sea-monster

Book of the Day

What rocks teach us about the human condition

Kathleen Jamie

Rebels Against the Raj: A morality tale for Modi’s nationalist India

Soumya Bhattacharya

Florence and the Machine’s Dance Fever is a timeless, euphoric record

Florence and the Machine’s Dance Fever is a timeless, euphoric record

Emily Bootle

Terence Davies’s Benediction is a perfect portrait of an outsider

David Sexton

Podcasts

Why is Boris Johnson waging a culture war? With Rory Stewart and Kim Leadbeater

Why is Boris Johnson waging a culture war? With Rory Stewart and Kim Leadbeater

If Keir Starmer resigns, who replaces him? With Andrew Marr

If Keir Starmer resigns, who replaces him? With Andrew Marr

How China targets Uyghurs around the world

How China targets Uyghurs around the world

A year inside GB News: "What the hell have we done?"

Audio Long Reads

A year inside GB News: “What the hell have we done?”

Stuart McGurk and Chris Stone

Business and Economics

What does stagflation mean for the cost-of-living crisis?

Emma Haslett

“You’re made to feel like the criminal”: why victims of romance scams feel let down by banks

Sarah Dawood

Office clearout leaves Britain with more jobs than workers to fill them

Office clearout leaves Britain with more jobs than workers to fill them

Could a four-day week stop the next recession?

Will Dunn

The Business Interview

“They have no respect for anything”: the quiet remorse of the man who sold London to Putin’s oligarchs

Emma Haslett

The Tories are trying to blame the Bank of England for our economic crisis

The Tories are trying to blame the Bank of England for our economic crisis

Will Dunn

Environment

The Environment Interview

England on fire? Stephen Ellcock and the need for radical, noisy art

India Bourke

Wrong-headed food policies will lose the Tories their rural voters

Tim Lang

Why the world underestimates China's climate action at its peril

Why the world underestimates China’s climate action at its peril

Bernice Lee

Why climate doomism is not an option

Philippa Nuttall

UK offshore wind will be “more valuable” than North Sea oil ever was

Nick Ferris

George Monbiot: “Agriculture is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth”

George Monbiot: “Agriculture is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth”

Philippa Nuttall

The Long Read

Norman Scott interview: "I never loved Jeremy Thorpe, but he could be enormous fun"

The Kate Mossman Interview

Norman Scott interview: “I never loved Jeremy Thorpe, but he could be enormous fun”

The Liberal leader was tried for conspiracy to Scott’s murder in 1979 in the biggest political scandal of the 20th…

By Kate Mossman

Magazine

Putin vs Nato

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Putin vs Nato

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The second coming of Nato

By Adam Tooze

Mumsnet’s founder Justine Roberts: “It is a place where women can speak the truth”

By Sophie McBain

Norman Scott interview: “I never loved Jeremy Thorpe, but he could be enormous fun”

By Kate Mossman

Spotlight

The other windfall tax: Can this blueprint fix the children's care system?

The other windfall tax: Can this blueprint fix the children’s care system?

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

The workplace stress disconnect

The workplace stress disconnect

Sarah Dawood

Pothole politics: A green councillor on breaking through in south London

Regional Development

Pothole politics: A green councillor on breaking through in south London

Samir Jeraj

NSA cyber chief: Even the good hactivists are problematic

NSA cyber chief: Even the good hactivists are problematic

Sarah Dawood