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UK’s Look Mum No Computer last in Eurovision final as Bulgaria wins first trophy

Bulgaria won the contest for the first time with Israel taking second place. The UK’s Eurovision entry Look Mum No Computer has finished last in the song contest’s 2026 grand…

Labour leadership rivals caught up in debate over EU ties

Who are the senior Labour figures vying to replace Sir Keir Starmer?

Look Mum No Computer performs in Eurovision final as Israel gets mixed reception

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Police disperse crowds amid ‘disorder’ after Celtic’s Scottish Premiership win

Tens of thousands of people attend two protests as 31 arrested

Hearts fans devastated after late goals win Scottish Premiership for Celtic

COMMENT

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

Hold the blank page

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Where hope takes root

As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…

War reporter

Cambridge In early September I attended the British Red Cross summer school in international humanitarian…

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…

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COMMENT

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

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Snob value

Looking down your nose at “common” behaviour can create a constructive social dynamic

The end is nigh for old politics

The young are desperate for change

The canary in my coalmine

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

Perspectives

All that jazz

The carefree socialites of the 1920s can teach us how to let our hair down

Too broke to multiply

Róisín Lanigan

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

Silence of the lambs

The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor

PEOPLE

PEOPLE

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Sathnam Sanghera

The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society

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Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Sally Phillips

The much-loved UK actress on comedy, faith, disability and Christmas

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Benny Higgins

Banker

Vince Cable

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Secretary of State (2010-2015)

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE – Q&As

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Sally Phillips

The much-loved UK actress on comedy, faith, disability and Christmas

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Vince Cable

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Secretary of State (2010-2015)

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Benny Higgins

Banker

CULTURE

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“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

Ruth Ivo

The former burlesque dancer discusses her fictionalised memoir of Soho life in Performance, the exhilarating freedom of club nights in her youth and “hatching” from an egg on stage

The classicist, Cambridge don and trustee of the British Museum discusses flamingo-brain feasts, gender surgery in antiquity and her new book Emperor of Rome

The acclaimed novelist discusses her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Helm, writing a "strange biography" of Britain's only named wind, climate collapse and "radical optimism," and why sorority is the key to consolidating power shifts and positive change

The novelist, gamer and Bailey Women’s Prize winner discusses tech billionaires, apocalypse bunkers, her fans Obama and Gates, and her new book The Future

FEATURES

Hymn to Hestia

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan

Primetime Potus

Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Things to Consider in the Design of Your First Space Suit by Harry Man

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

Raye against the machine

CULTURE

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“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

FEATURES

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

The politics of colour

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

Film, Film - Front Page, TCE

Primetime Potus

Style, Style - Front Page, TCE

Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Art, Art - Front Page, TCE

The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

Music, Music - Front Page, TCE

Prisoner with a key

Book Reviews

LIFE

For better, for worse

June brings fewer wedding bells, but Scheherazade offers post-nuptial inspiration

Buffalo Gal

Unpacking the formative impact of an iconic 1980s pop video

Spaniel stories

How a mischievous companion transformed my life

Funny Woman

The challenges of being a female comic

LIFE

Trussst in me…

Siân Wainwright

How do we stop snakes from scamming the elderly?

Cutting ties

Rowena Macdonald

The stress of breaking up with your hairdresser

Mid-life fever

Dr Patricia Campbell

A return to India prompts reflection on cycles of change in medicine and life

The go-between

Growing up in a tied cottage on a landed estate

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

Dealing with a child who lies and a dinner party refusenik

In-law etiquette, and seeking an ADHD diagnosis

Shopping addiction and a divisive will

Yo-yo dieting and a petrolhead husband

Othello syndrome and kitchen wars

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

Gender norms and New Age neighbours

Finding new love and domestic stand-offs

Mid-life rage and teenage drugs

How to be optimistic and an autism diagnosis

A personality change and a foot fetish