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The 17-year-old will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with arson after an attack on a synagogue in north-west London. The teenager, a…
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The road to recovery
First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three times in history that a Labour government has been elected on a sweeping majority, crushing the Conservative incumbents. What Keir Starmer…
An age without rival
It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…
Unfree speech
Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…
Posh performance
I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…
Where hope takes root
As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…
Creative destruction
According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…
Defenestration nation
Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…
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New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…
America’s third man
With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…
Hopeful histories
“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…
Cradle of libertines
England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…
Perspectives
Perspectives
Deadly game
Palestinians have been kicked around for decades – could football have something to teach politicians on every side?
Falling short of the Four Freedoms
How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
Martin Rees
Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"
Rory Stewart
The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics
Catherine the Great
The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science
FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As
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CULTURE
FEATURES
Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
CULTURE
“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”
Hanna Pylväinen
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
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 Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book
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Gothic delights
Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan
POETRY
LIFE
Free spirit
How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity
Hungry Ghosts
Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness
LIFE
For better, for worse
June brings fewer wedding bells, but Scheherazade offers post-nuptial inspiration
Mid-life fever
A return to India prompts reflection on cycles of change in medicine and life
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