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Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s ...

James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country. In Kharkiv, he found a population living in fear not only of the ...

If you’re looking for advice on sustaining a marriage, or robbing a grave, or performing liver surgery, then a series of self-help stories by a 14th-century Spanish prince is a good place to start.

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