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An unexpected and welcome argument has broken out in the Labour party about how it ought to govern the United Kingdom. Prompted by the party’s serial electoral winner Tony Blair and then picked up by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and two...
This government could yet revive our economy, but it will require a bold mix of public action and private enterprise An aspiring literary man, who went on to become prime minister, once wrote that “a Lancashire village has expanded into a...
How a notorious member of the former Syrian regime built a property empire in Europe, and evaded justice On the walls of a farmhouse southwest of Paris hang oil paintings of shadowy figures, their eyes closed or obscured by thick, black...
The British right’s visions of utopia and dystopia are being driven by AI slop George Orwell, the great dystopian writer, once dreamed up a vision of his ideal pub in London: a homely local called “The Moon Under Water” with plenty of oak and a...
Life as the latest test subject of a US psychologist’s 50-year study into how human beings think The headphone in my left ear emits a beep at random intervals within a 60-minute timeframe. It’s an insistent noise, as though it’s forcing me...
The men’s football World Cup has become the definitive 21st century spectacle What is the greatest show on Earth? For the age of European empire, a case could be made for the world fairs, from London’s Great Exhibition to Chicago’s White City...
