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Trump’s China visit will expose America’s weakness
The balance of power between Beijing and Washington has shifted—to Xi’s advantage
Isabel Hilton
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Starmer’s leadership nightmare
Prospect Team
The Insider
The view from inside an ‘orderly transition’
Andrew Adonis
Politics
Starmer’s speech analysed: the man with no plan
Philip Collins
Labour Party
The long, epic collapse of Welsh Labour
Dan Evans
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THE INSIDER
The view from inside an ‘orderly transition’
Andrew Adonis
CHINA
Trump’s China visit will expose America’s weakness
Isabel Hilton
POLITICS
Starmer’s speech analysed: the man with no plan
Philip Collins
LABOUR PARTY
The long, epic collapse of Welsh Labour
Dan Evans
CULTURE
The joy of Zurbarán
Fiammetta Rocco
PEOPLE
Patrick Radden Keefe: Telling the truth doesn’t always make life better
Samuel Stephen
POLITICS
The lessons of this week’s election
Peter Kellner
POLITICS
Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power
Alan Rusbridger
LIVES
Sex life: I love rehoming ex-racehorses, but the industry needs reform
Tilly Lawless
ENERGY
There is no case for drilling in the North Sea
Sam Alvis
Argument
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Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power
Alan Rusbridger
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The social network in the dock
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In Britain, Jews are demonised—and too few care
Alona Ferber
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The quiet triumph of the button-down conservative
Ben Ansell From the magazine
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Artemis II’s science of resistance
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Sex life: Friendship shouldn’t come with obligation
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Sheila Hancock: I thought I might faint in front of all the Dames
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Mindful life: Depression made me feel like everyone hated me
Sarah Collins From the magazine
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Young life: I have been made redundant for the second time in my twenties
Alice Garnett From the magazine
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Rural life: The hills of my Welsh village are alive with the sound of music
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The Iran war has left the UK poorer than it hoped to be
There are no easy answers for an energy-importing country during a global energy price surge
Duncan Weldon
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Lebanon
Sally Hayden’s diary: Fragments of life in Beirut
Sally Hayden
From the magazine
Middle East
Food could soon run short—and so will Trump’s luck
Tim Smedley
Middle East
Beyond the Iran war
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Politics
The lessons of this week’s election
Reform UK has peaked, right and left have diverged—and Labour must settle its leadership question once and for all
Peter Kellner
Energy
There is no case for drilling in the North Sea
Sam Alvis
The weekly constitutional
Multi-party politics will be no great shock to the UK constitution
DAT Green
Local Government
The secret life of a local councillor
The Covert Councillor
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Music
What Dylan and the Beatles meant to each other
Both acts shook up the 1960s. To what extend did they do it together?
Christopher Bray
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Poetry
Here, at last, is Sylvia Plath
Jeremy Noel-Tod
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Poetry
The age of Auden
Peter Williams
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Books in Brief: what to read this May
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