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Why Britain’s decline resembles the fall of Rome

Under craven, venal, populist leaders, countries can lose their way frighteningly fast. Just ask the Romans.

By Martin Fletcher

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The Taliban's Afghanistan, one year on: murder, repression and economic devastation

The Taliban’s Afghanistan, one year on: murder, repression and economic devastation

Ido Vock

Does Keir Starmer’s plan to freeze energy bills go far enough?

Rachel Wearmouth

Does anyone actually care about Cop27?

Why are energy bills rising faster in the UK than anywhere else?

Nick Ferris

Salman Rushdie shows us that free speech is life itself

Salman Rushdie shows us that free speech is life itself

Erica Wagner

Diversity is part of the very soul of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

Marc Burrows

Quickfire

Liz Truss’s conflation of anti-Semitism with wokeism is mad and bad

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Liz Truss’s conflation of anti-Semitism with wokeism is mad and bad

Alona Ferber

Europe’s worst drought on record needs to trigger a flood of climate action

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Europe’s worst drought on record needs to trigger a flood of climate action

India Bourke

Politics

A Tory party that’s out of ideas will soon find itself out of power

Conservatives must believe there are conservative answers to the problems Britain faces. Why aren’t we hearing them?

By John Oxley

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Quietly, our Brexit government is learning to love immigration – just not migrants

Quietly, our Brexit government is learning to love immigration – just not migrants

Anoosh Chakelian

Inside the Tory grassroots: what do members really want?

Anoosh Chakelian

What Tory leadership candidate would dare make David Cameron’s pitch today?

The Tory party has been infected by a purist brainworm

Martha Gill

Keir Starmer is letting a crisis go to waste

Keir Starmer is letting a crisis go to waste

Rory Scothorne

The absurdities of Suella Braverman’s “war on woke”

Philip Collins

From Our Writers

Tomiwa Owolade

The conservative case for returning the Benin bronzes to Nigeria

Marie Le Conte

Learning for its own sake is lovely, but that’s not all university is for

Martin Fletcher

Britain’s painful decline since the 2012 London Olympics

Rachel Cunliffe

Liz Truss is channelling Boris Johnson, not Margaret Thatcher

World

Is everything suddenly going Joe Biden’s way?

The US president is finding out that improved poll numbers are a reward for serving the public, not the other way around.

By Emily Tamkin

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Afghan living standards have collapsed after a year under the Taliban

Afghan living standards have collapsed after a year under the Taliban

Afiq Fitri

Republicans, this is why you wait for more information

Emily Tamkin

What the Crimea airbase attack means for the war in Ukraine

Katie Stallard

Germany must abandon its debt brake to make up for the lost Merkel years

Thorsten Benner

In the grip of overlapping crises, Europe faces a leadership vacuum

In the grip of overlapping crises, Europe faces a leadership vacuum

Mujtaba Rahman

Alexei Navalny’s chief of staff: “Putinism will now come to an end much sooner”

Ido Vock

Ideas

Wittgenstein at war

Thomas Nagel

The authoritarian interlude

Phil Tinline

Would there still have been climate change under socialism?

Would there still have been climate change under socialism?

Leigh Phillips

Why your flights keep getting cancelled

Daniel Zamora

To realise political unity, humankind must look to the starry heavens

Justin EH Smith

Viktor Orbán's American apologists

Viktor Orbán’s American apologists

John Ganz

Books and Culture

A life without peace

A new collection of autobiographical prose reveals the turbulent inner life of the celebrated poet Robert Lowell.

By Jeremy Noel-Tod

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Who wants to be “normal”?

Book of the Day

Who wants to be “normal”?

Sophie McBain

Elif Batuman and the art of a real life

Philip Larkin at 100

“The festival is more fragile than ever”: the Edinburgh Fringe wars

Anna Leszkiewicz and Bilal Aly

Mark Haddon: “I’m quite lucky to be alive”

Mark Haddon: “I’m quite lucky to be alive”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

How the super-rich live

Matthew Beaumont

Podcasts

How did US politics become so polarised? With Nick Bryant

How did US politics become so polarised? With Nick Bryant

How the British university degree lost its value - Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

How the British university degree lost its value – Audio Long Reads

Harry Lambert

As crisis looms, where are Britain’s leaders?

As crisis looms, where are Britain’s leaders?

Why the Democrats’ big bill matters

Why the Democrats’ big bill matters

Business and Economics

Can “Trussonomics” work?

Will Dunn

The building that remade London

Emma Haslett

There’s a new factor pushing up energy prices, and it’s nothing to do with Russia

There’s a new factor pushing up energy prices, and it’s nothing to do with Russia

Emma Haslett

The woman who plans to switch off obesity with a pill

Emma Haslett

The UK is going into recession, and even Liz Truss might not be able to save it

Emma Haslett

The dangerous approach of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son

The dangerous approach of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son

Oscar Williams

Environment

Pascal Lamy on the climate crisis: “We have to go way back to find a global picture as depressing as today”

Philippa Nuttall

Nuclear energy vs renewables: which is the best solution for the climate crisis?

Philippa Nuttall

How Britain can prevent drought

How Britain can prevent drought

India Bourke

How are animals adapting to climate change?

India Bourke

Hard work won’t be enough to pay your energy bill

Philippa Nuttall

Is climate anxiety ruining my friendships?

Is climate anxiety ruining my friendships?

Philippa Nuttall

The Long Read

The battle for the soul of English cricket

The battle for the soul of English cricket

When the former Yorkshire bowler Azeem Rafiq blew the whistle on racism within the sport, high-profile resignations and inquiries followed.…

By Emma John

Magazine

Summer Special

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Summer reflection: the silence of the seabirds

By Helen Macdonald

Lisa Nandy: “I disliked the cults around Blair and Corbyn: one man doesn’t change things”

By Kate Mossman

A fatal attraction

By Jeremy Cliffe

The battle for the soul of English cricket

By Emma John

Spotlight

Do mapping apps exacerbate prejudice?

Emerging Technologies

Do mapping apps exacerbate prejudice?

Clara Aberneithie

NHS dental patients have been punished for long enough

NHS dental patients have been punished for long enough

Shawn Charlwood

You don't win over young people by blocking their access to education

You don’t win over young people by blocking their access to education

Nick Hillman

The Policy Ask with Arthur Snell: "Many of the world’s problems stem from the Iraq invasion"

Energy and Climate Change

The Policy Ask with Arthur Snell: “Many of the world’s problems stem from the Iraq invasion”

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