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How the Met Police saved Boris Johnson from partygate

By delaying Sue Gray’s report and only fining the Prime Minister once, the Met gave him space to survive.

By Harry Lambert

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Boris Johnson has proved once again that he has no shame

Boris Johnson has proved once again that he has no shame

Martin Fletcher

The Texas school shooting won’t change the US’s deadly gun laws

Emily Tamkin

Partner content

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

How to free the UK from Boris Johnson’s zombie government

Paul Mason

The myth of the white male scientific genius – and why its time is up

Book of the Day

The myth of the white male scientific genius – and why its time is up

Will Dunn

The power of one Russian diplomat’s example

Katie Stallard

Quickfire

Depicting monkeypox on dark skin is a public health risk

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Depicting monkeypox on dark skin is a public health risk

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

We should mourn the loss of the innocent pitch invasion

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We should mourn the loss of the innocent pitch invasion

Tom Young

From Our Writers

Andrew Marr

Courts, rivers, teeth: No 10 has shed its responsibilities

Martha Gill

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

Anoosh Chakelian

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

Jonn Elledge

Austerity was never popular, it just happened to other people

Politics

The Politics Interview

Jeremy Hunt warns Tories of “dangers of alienating suburban voters”

The former health secretary and 2019 Tory leadership candidate “wouldn’t rule out” running for the top job again.

By Anoosh Chakelian

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Can Zarah Sultana save the Labour left?

Can Zarah Sultana save the Labour left?

George Eaton

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

Andrew Marr

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

Can Scottish Labour ever hope to challenge the SNP?

Chris Deerin

Rishi Sunak must urgently do more for the poorest

Rishi Sunak must urgently do more for the poorest

David Gauke

The Conservative Party is lost

Philip Collins

World

Striker, shopkeeper, pigeon: what Sweden and Nato should know about Erdoğan

The Turkish president has been moving the goalposts domestically for 20 years. The international community must catch up.

By Ece Temelkuran

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Russia’s military culture brutalises the conscripts it needs for the war in Ukraine

Russia’s military culture brutalises the conscripts it needs for the war in Ukraine

Ido Vock

The two genres of Trump book

Emily Tamkin

How Vladimir Putin weaponised the environment in Ukraine

Philippa Nuttall

America has learned nothing from its million Covid deaths

Charlotte Kilpatrick

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

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

Tim Soutphommasane

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

Bradley Jardine

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

Who is to blame for 30 years of climate change inertia?

Two new books trace the history of global inaction over the climate emergency, and seek to identify the culprits.

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Euphoria at Harry Styles's intimate album release show

Euphoria at Harry Styles’s intimate album release show

Anna Leszkiewicz

The startling composure of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

The pop stars tackling the climate cost of live music

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The Quiet Girl is an artfully muted masterpiece

Ryan Gilbey

Top Gun: Maverick and the politics of the action hero

Top Gun: Maverick and the politics of the action hero

Leo Robson

Grayson’s Art Club Jubilee special: a terrifying extravaganza for the bunting obsessed

Rachel Cooke

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

Five ways the government failed to shield the UK from inflation

Five ways the government failed to shield the UK from inflation

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

Blue Wall Australians voted for climate action; Boris Johnson should take note

Blue Wall Australians voted for climate action; Boris Johnson should take note

Richie Merzian

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

Bernice Lee

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

Out of Control

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How Britain’s failure to reckon with global forces led to a cost-of-living crisis

By John Gray

Christopher Steele: “There is a serious vacuum in the Kremlin. It can’t last”

By Jeremy Cliffe

How the Marshall Plan made Europe

By David Reynolds

Spotlight

Why levelling up the UK’s council homes has to involve the capital

Regional Development

Why levelling up the UK’s council homes has to involve the capital

Michael Goodier

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

Why Ukraine has stayed online

Why Ukraine has stayed online

Jonny Ball