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Carney, Mamdani and Ossoff are all showing you can take on the raging right and win. But there’s one crucial lesson from them that Andy Burnham must learn
The Magazine
The decline of the Daily Mail
Its strident right wing views have dominated British discourse for years – and it seemed set to rule the digital age too. But suddenly, it is struggling to find its place in a new Britain and a changed world
What happens when we forget Hitler?
The second world war forged our moral order. As memories fade and the truth is twisted, that is falling apart – and no one knows what will replace it
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A socialist insurgency is shaking the party as it heads into the midterms and eyes a return to the White House
Spending a week inside the mind of the Daily Mail
I read the paper every day for seven days straight. It is a lurid stew of gruesome crime reporting, anti-Labour rants and stories about hot tubs
Bonnie Greer’s driving, passionate, urgent search for our common humanity
The New World founder on the great journalist, broadcaster and playwright who has died after a short illness
Emily Maitlis’s diary: Trump doesn’t fear the AI apocalypse – but he’s terrified about the midterms
The president’s biggest fear is a Wall Street panic that turns him into a lame duck
Writers
Alastair Campbell
Why is Farage so keen to protect Russia’s right to lie and cheat?
Marie Le Conte
I was born in France, I love France – but now it horrifies me
Matthew d’Ancona
Worried about the AI apocalypse? You’re already living in it
Patience Wheatcroft
The assisted dying bill has been an embarrassment for parliament
Tanit Koch
In Germany, the extremists of left and right are soaring as the centre folds
Paul Mason
Is the future communist?
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No, the Foreign Office is not funding abortions in Afghanistan
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Podcasts
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Ketamine epidemic and trouble in Narnia
The Two Matts
A lot of Andy Burnham and a bit of Hitler
Touching Grass
The great iced coffee row, and is internet hustle culture getting out of hand?
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: What is it crypto billionaires love so much about Nigel Farage?
The Two Matts
Is AI really coming to eat us all… and how do we stop it?
Touching Grass
Aella, and why BookTok has changed how people read
Arts & Culture
Bonnie Greer’s driving, passionate, urgent search for our common humanity
The New World founder on the great journalist, broadcaster and playwright who has died after a short illness
Why Netanyahu hates the most powerful film of the year
American Hagwon, the epic novel that explores the heavy cost of raising winners
The chilling banality of Putin’s kingdom of fear
The secret lives of Hollywood’s animals
Audio
The Two Matts Q&A: Ketamine epidemic and trouble in Narnia
The Matts answer listeners’ questions in their regular Sunday morning edition, including: How does Andy Burnham take Britain into the EU?
A lot of Andy Burnham and a bit of Hitler
The Matts discuss Andy Burnham’s speech to the United Nations
Touching Grass
The great iced coffee row, and is internet hustle culture getting out of hand?
This week Lucy Reade unpacks the latest Gen Z discourse: is it unprofessional to drink iced coffee in a job interview? And James Ball asks whether internet hustle culture is getting out of hand…
The Two Matts Q&A: What is it crypto billionaires love so much about Nigel Farage?
The Matts answer listener questions, including: Why do crypto billionaires fall over themselves to give Nigel Farage money?
Is AI really coming to eat us all… and how do we stop it?
The Matts open with a heartfelt tribute to the late, great Bonnie Greer, who died this week. In the first half they discuss the extraordinary pace of developments and concern around AI
Aella, and why BookTok has changed how people read
This week James Ball inflicts upon us a strange cocktail of Aella, AI doomerism and Harry Potter fanfiction. Meanwhile, Lucy Reade discusses why BookTok has changed how people read and… also gets on to the topic of Harry Potter fanfiction
The Two Matts Q&A: Can’t we have welfare AND defence?
The Matts answer listener questions including: why can’t we have decent welfare and a strong defence?
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Worried about the AI apocalypse? You’re already living in it
Trump has been reduced to crawling to China – it’s humiliating
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Kemi Badenoch’s war on fun
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Blair gives Burnham some European pre-conference counsel
Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents – and he’ll get them on Facebook
Brexit
Blair gives Burnham some European pre-conference counsel
The former prime minister has popped up to urge Labour to restart negotiations on Britain joining the EU within a decade
Canada is now closer to Europe than Britain
Mark Carney, the Canadian PM, was governor of the Bank of England during Brexit. He knows how to deal with Europe – and it shows
Should Britain take a (maple) leaf from Canada’s book on EU?
The country led by Mark Carney has been offered “associated EU membership”. Might it be a model for the UK?
John Healey, the growth-seeking chancellor who won’t mention Europe
The chancellor wants to see the economy grow. Yet his set piece speech this week failed to mention the EU once
The Brexit debate which Reform ducked
Parliament held a debate on the impact of the EU referendum, 10 years on. Only one member of Nigel Farage’s party turned up, and it wasn’t him
Will the sensible Tories please stand up and start a new party?
Kemi Badenoch has abandoned one-nation voters by courting the far right. A breakaway now looks like the only answer
Ukraine
Why is Farage so keen to protect Russia’s right to lie and cheat?
Reform’s leader is protesting too much as he wails about free speech in the face of Putin’s disinformation
The chilling banality of Putin’s kingdom of fear
Åsne Seierstad’s extraordinary Never Say War exposes the violence and indifference at the heart of Russia
Russian voters are tired of Putin – and he is running out of options
There’s no way for citizens to discuss the thing that’s ruining their lives – the war. At Russia’s parliamentary elections, there’s no way to vote against it either
Putin’s greatest enemy? It’s laughter
As the bombs fall, Oleksiy Kustovsky is turning the dictator into an object of ridicule
Books are the key to understanding the world. That’s why Putin wants to burn them
Putin wants an all-out attack on Ukraine’s culture – and on the things that make life bearable in horrific times
The queer Ukrainians voguing while Putin bombs them
In the face of war and discrimination, the country’s ballroom scene refuses to surrender its joy
The big picture
Putin’s greatest enemy? It’s laughter
As the bombs fall, Oleksiy Kustovsky is turning the dictator into an object of ridicule
The eternal life of Ian Curtis and Joy Division
How one photographer helped create the image of the band that we still believe
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Hiroshi Yamauchi, the unlikely genius behind Nintendo
Noor Inayat Khan, the pacifist turned wartime secret agent
The kiss that turned Michael K Williams into Omar
BKS Iyengar, the ferocious gentleman of yoga
Why did Babe Ruth’s rivals think he was black?
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