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Angela Merkel’s failures serve as a warning to British leaders

The former German chancellor’s short-termism created an unsustainable economic model. Will the UK avoid the same trap?

By Wolfgang Münchau

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Prince Harry’s war on the Windsors

Prince Harry’s war on the Windsors

Andrew Marr

Why Brexit is back

David Gauke

The law against assisted dying is causing avoidable misery

Does Nicola Sturgeon regret her Scottish independence gamble?

Chris Deerin

Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish

Book of the Day

Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish

Anna Leszkiewicz

Politics

Rishi Sunak needs to show the public he can do more than crisis management

The PM’s current priorities are easy to achieve and do nothing to define his form of Conservatism.

By Freddie Hayward

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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer still need to sell their visions to the public

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer still need to sell their visions to the public

Andrew Marr

Keir Starmer quips that he fears bumping into Rishi Sunak on holiday

Rachel Wearmouth

The truth about the worst NHS crisis

Wes Streeting’s plan for the NHS signals a bolder Labour in 2023

Rachel Wearmouth

Ben Wallace is on high alert after Prince Harry’s Taliban kill-count revelation

Commons Confidential

Ben Wallace is on high alert after Prince Harry’s Taliban kill-count revelation

Kevin Maguire

The return of Boris Johnson is dangerously plausible

David Gauke

From Our Writers

Sarah Manavis

The Brazil riots were openly planned on social media. So why was nothing done?

John Gray

The delusions that bind communism and liberalism

Rachel Cunliffe

Royal drama is a respite from the catastrophes on the news

Jeremy Cliffe

Fifty years after joining the European Communities, Britain still doesn’t know what it is or wants

World

The Putin backlash

Russia is stuck with a form of warfare that depends on artillery barrages and indifference to casualties.

By Lawrence Freedman

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What China’s devastating Covid outbreak means for the rest of the world

What China’s devastating Covid outbreak means for the rest of the world

Katie Stallard

Nato’s taboo of not sending tanks to Ukraine is slowly being broken

Ido Vock

Ten crucial questions about the world in 2023

Jeremy Cliffe

Ideas

Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life

Adam Tooze

The left’s patient gardener

Richard Seymour

American hubris

American hubris

Adam Tooze

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Paris Marx

What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong

Oliver Eagleton

The new class war

The Ideas Interview

The new class war

Jonathan Rutherford

Books and Culture

Prince Harry’s Spare is a deeply uncomfortable read

Throughout the book’s 400 pages runs a single theme: the need for closure after a lifetime of repressed trauma.

By Rachel Cunliffe

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The Britpop nostalgia complex

The Britpop nostalgia complex

Stuart Maconie

The secret lives of Katherine Mansfield

How Janis Joplin set the template for rock’s outcasts

Kate Mossman

How the world turned global

Gavin Jacobson

Tár is a crafty, cryptic take on art and morality in the online age

Tár is a crafty, cryptic take on art and morality in the online age

Ryan Gilbey

Podcasts

Are British prime ministers too powerful? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Westminster Reimagined

Are British prime ministers too powerful? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions? – Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions? – Audio Long Reads

Jeremy Cliffe

Can Britain make Brexit work? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Can Britain make Brexit work? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Redrawing the UK’s electoral map: who’s set to win and lose?

Redrawing the UK’s electoral map: who’s set to win and lose?

Business and Economics

The Tories are planning to leave the housing crash for the next government

Emma Haslett

Most UK businesses see no benefit in post-Brexit deregulation

Emma Haslett

The UK’s GDP figures look good, but they don’t tell the whole story

The UK’s GDP figures look good, but they don’t tell the whole story

Emma Haslett

Is Elon Musk too rich to fail?

Will Dunn

“What Rishi Sunak is doing is lunacy”: the City’s favourite strategist on the economy’s hidden dangers

Will Dunn

What if inflation falls in the wrong way?

What if inflation falls in the wrong way?

Emma Haslett

Spotlight on Policy

Mick Lynch: Government has “a Stalinist obsession” over strike negotiations

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

The Long Read

From second homes to food banks, Cornwall is a land of widening extremes

From second homes to food banks, Cornwall is a land of widening extremes

There are many more Airbnb rentals than long-term rentals here – and nothing pushes families to catastrophe quicker than insecure…

By Tanya Gold

Magazine

Burning down the House of Windsor

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Burning down the House of Windsor

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Prince Harry’s war on the Windsors

By Andrew Marr

Is Substack the future of media?

By Harry Lambert

The new class war

By Jonathan Rutherford