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What can Liz Truss possibly say now?

The Prime Minister would be truly reckless to use her Conservative conference speech to triple down on her current plans.

By Philip Collins

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Decoding the UK’s economic crisis

Decoding the UK’s economic crisis

Brett Christophers

Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

Jeremy Cliffe

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

I organised Liz Truss’s local radio interviews – here’s how it all unfolded

Phoebe Frieze

Football’s data delusion

Football’s data delusion

Simon Kuper

Will Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation backfire?

Lawrence Freedman

Quickfire

Delaying the OBR report will backfire on the government

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Delaying the OBR report will backfire on the government

Will Dunn

Should we have a statue of the Queen in Trafalgar Square?

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Should we have a statue of the Queen in Trafalgar Square?

Peter Hughes

Politics

Is this the end of the Tory era?

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have handed Labour its biggest poll lead in decades – and Conservative MPs are terrified.

By Harry Lambert

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The first stirrings of rebellion against Liz Truss

The first stirrings of rebellion against Liz Truss

Freddie Hayward

Keir Starmer’s speech showed he is a prime minister in waiting

Andrew Marr

Who and what is behind Keir Starmer’s improved Labour conference speech?

Can Liz Truss survive?

Andrew Marr

Kwasi Kwarteng forgot that radicalism needs to be matched by credibility

Kwasi Kwarteng forgot that radicalism needs to be matched by credibility

John McDonnell

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

Nuclear threats will beget more nuclear threats

After a series of bogus referenda, Putin has claimed parts of Ukraine as Russian, will he now use nuclear weapons to hold these areas?

By Emily Tamkin

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Lula vs Bolsanaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained

Lula vs Bolsanaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained

Phil Clarke Hill

How one woman’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

The vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams

In reviving local and popular musical traditions, the composer found haunting new expressions of Englishness.

By Rowan Williams

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Lucian Freud’s pitiless style

Lucian Freud’s pitiless style

Michael Prodger

Hilary Mantel’s death is an incalculable loss to our national life and literature

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

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

Is Labour finally a government in waiting?

Is Labour finally a government in waiting?

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

The alternative to growth that could save humanity

Energy and Climate Change

The alternative to growth that could save humanity

Philippa Nuttall

"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

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

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

Polly Bindman

The Policy Ask with Michelle Mitchell: "I never saw female CEO role models when I was growing up"

The Policy Ask with Michelle Mitchell: “I never saw female CEO role models when I was growing up”

Spotlight

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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Metaverse in retrograde

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How one woman’s death set Iran on fire

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