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Chris Tilbury / October 19, 2018
As smartphone functionality has increased, so has the time we spend on them
David Henig / October 19, 2018
Negotiations with Washington would gift the Labour leader a campaign attack line
William A Edmundson / October 19, 2018
John Rawls is best known for “A Theory of Justice” but his later work has important...
Christopher Grey / October 19, 2018
Has any other recent political process generated so many strange comparisons? Asks...
Charlotte Higgins / October 18, 2018
The Athenian electorate voted to kill all the men in Mytilene. Then they had a second...
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David Edmonds / October 18, 2018
Computers can now easily beat grandmasters. But as the World Chess Championship...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Simon Heffer / October 18, 2018
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Simon Heffer go head-to-head in this month's duel
Samira Shackle / October 16, 2018
Armed only with a microphone and his social media accounts, can Manzoor Pashteen change a...
Clare Malone / October 15, 2018
The Democratic Socialists of America are pulling the party of Clinton and Obama to the...
Steve Bloomfield / October 15, 2018
"Global Britain" has become an oft-repeated phrase. Yet in reality, the Foreign Office is...
Peter Kellner / October 13, 2018
Fifty years before some women were given the franchise, Lily Maxwell voted in a...
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As smartphone functionality has increased, so has the time we spend on them
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Archive
Paul Collier argues that an overhaul of capitalism is needed to solve regional inequality. Plus: the woman who voted in 1867, why the Foreign Office isn't ready for Brexit, and the 23-year-old setting out to change Pakistan
How one website is poisoning our political discourse. Plus: Will Self on liberalism, the truth about Oxford admissions, and the real John McDonnell
Donald MacIntyre reports from the West Bank on how the two-state solution is dying, while Avraham Burg proposes a bold one-state solution. Plus: a new Life section and remembering VS Naipaul
What would really happen if the UK stayed in the EU? Zoe Williams, Nick Clegg and more give their views. Plus: inside the world of child prodigies—and rediscovering Oscar Wilde's "lost" years in Paris