Long reads
The Kate Mossman Interview
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The Tory crack-up
Inside the dark new factions intent on taking over the Conservative Party.
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The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child
Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and motherhood might.
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King Charles III’s secret kingdom
For decades, as he awaited his turn to ascend the British throne, Charles presided over another kingdom: rural Transylvania.…
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How to save the NHS
Our medical editor spent New Year’s Day in A&E after his mother collapsed in church. In this personal essay…
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The year woke broke: a brief history of a contested word
From Suella Braverman to Elon Musk, war has been declared on liberalism. How did one word come to mean…
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“It’s constant anxiety”: inside the crisis in child social care
The murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes revealed shocking shortcomings in the UK’s social care system. What is…
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Margaret Atwood: Why I write dystopias
The Booker winner’s novels tend to imagine bleaker futures. Why not create something more optimistic?
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The coming Republican civil war
The US midterms were a setback for Donald Trump. Will his 2024 White House bid survive a brutal round…
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The death of “Boris” the clown
All of a sudden nothing worked. The audience began to jeer. Yes, for the first time in his career,…
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