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The left must answer for modern political violence

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In March, just before Artemis II rounded the far side of the Moon, the Transport Secretary had her own lunar…

Going to the theatre is a joy. When you are a character on the stage, less so. Over the past…

A Greek essayist c. 420 BC argued that Athens’s radical democracy, giving the vote to every adult male citizen, resulted…

Pennies pinching Sir: I agree with much of this week’s editorial, except for two points (‘Nunc dimittis’, 25 April). As…

‘Modernity’ is often behind the times. On Wednesday, parliament pushed out all remaining hereditary peers, although we live in an…

In Scotland, a changing of the guard is near. But while Hearts are set to break the duopoly of Celtic…

It was to King Charles’s great credit that he refused to fall for the Trump power handshake thing and instead…

The House of Lords is often described as ‘the best private members’ club in London’. Certainly, it has an appearance…

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Last Saturday evening, the American media class descended for its annual jamboree of back-slapping at the Washington Hilton. Protestors outside…

A sandwich with Andy Haldane, the former Bank of England economist, now president of British Chambers of Commerce, is the…

Hugh Trevor-Roper, for whom the university was a place of pleasure as well as learning, identifiedas early as 1951 a ‘party of darkness’ focusing on administrative efficiency and dullness

Anand Gopal traces events through the lives of six rebels, from the first stirrings against Assad to the latest protests against corruption

Robert Courtine, the revered food critic and Le Monde columnist for four decades, turns out to have been a devotee of Hitler and ferocious anti-Semite

Nostradamus’s prophecies are so poetic that they can be taken to foretell almost anything, while the American clairvoyant Jeane Dixon also managed to cover every possibility

Using his life as a case study, Brian Dillon sets out to demonstrate that education is just as much about questioning things as it is about obtaining answers

A bullied eight-year-old forms a bond with his caring, middle-aged neighbour in a heartbreaking novel of modern America’s underclass

Holly E.J. Black highlights the differences between the feathery delicacy of an etching, the bold forms of a linocut and the carved sinews of an ancient woodblock

In a short, glittering novel, Lerner shows how the factual is always infused with the fictional as he explores the tension between the given and the constructed

Muted, scrubby grasslands rather than rolling green fields are what excite the naturalist John Wright – and the buzz of stinging insects

The permissiveness of the 1920s led to an autocratic backlash, with ‘the entire class representing intellectual Germany’ becoming ‘Nazi-infested’, according to the diplomat Harry Kessler

Yasmina Reza is one of the most dazzling playwrights alive because she creates sweepingly funny bits of theatre (masterfully translated…

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) is one of those films which, if chanced upon when flicking television channels, I will…

Half Man, Richard Gadd’s follow-up to the all-conquering Baby Reindeer, began with approximately ten seconds of some people at a…

How do we evaluate Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, which over a period of 35 years recorded more than 200…

By the time Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief was born in 1991, Kim Gordon had already released seven albums with…

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, adapted from Ken Kesey’s book by Dale Wasserman, is exactly like the movie but…

Grade: B ‘Is that Haydn or Mozart? One can’t always be sure,’ remarks Kenneth Clark in the 18th-century episode of…

I’d just emerged from Stratford station when I realised it had been almost a decade to the day since I’d…

‘Professor Sir Wayne McGregor CBE’ runs the headline to a biographical essay in the programme for the Royal Ballet’s triple…

The Festival of Britain – that much mythologised moment of national renewal – is wheeled out every time the country…

How do you write satire when you are up against a literary festival? It writes itself. I have been leafing…

There are some silly people (in the US more than here) who like to claim that President Trump is suffering…

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Competition 3447 invited you to outdo Kingsley Amis in detailing a hang-over from hell, but in the style of another…

Simpson’s in the Strand is a dream palace, and its fortunes are as tidal as the river. It is on…

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‘Something I like to do with all my tables is ask what brings you here today?’ said the young waiter…

Suddenly last Sunday in London nearly 60,000 amateur runners were able to say they had competed in a race in…

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