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In Saki’s shadows

My biography of our foundational comic writer has just been published. He was—and remains—a delightfully elusive subject

Oliver Soden

Welcome back, 2016

Ben Ansell

Greg Wise: ‘Loss is the price we pay for life’

Graeme Green

AI’s railroad to corruption

Ethan Zuckerman

My quest for peace and quiet

Ioan Marc Jones

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How the populist right profits from online misogyny

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Where on Earth is Utopia now?

Dawkins’s leap of faith

Can feminism meet the challenges of 2026?

The case for a non-political British civil service

Vernon Bogdanor

The case against adoption

Katharine Quarmby

Playing at religion

An anatomy of America’s gun culture

James Bloodworth

Introducing my undesirable friends

Rural life: In Autumn I am struck with hiraeth

Argument

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Mao Zedong is no laughing matter

Isabel Hilton

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How AI learned to love the Chinese Communist Party

Ethan Zuckerman From the magazine

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My week as a tax radical

Ben Ansell From the magazine

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Embedded with Burnham: The special relationship shrinks

Henry Morris From the magazine

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Politicians have got no hope when it comes to AI

Alan Rusbridger

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Second life: I buy back my own books from second-hand shops

Vitali Vitaliev

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Long life: At 93, I miss the Queen more than ever

Sheila Hancock From the magazine

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Mindful life: My annus horribilis

Sarah Collins From the magazine

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Young life: Why I’m moving in with a married couple

Alice Garnett From the magazine

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Will I lose my identity when I retire from sex work?

Tilly Lawless From the magazine

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The Insider

Trump won’t change, whatever happens in the midterms

I don’t have a crystal ball, just a rearview mirror

Andrew Adonis

The weekly constitutional

Politics, not law, is the way to defeat the illiberals

DAT Green

We need to talk about the lawyers who threaten free speech in Britain

Eliot Higgins

The Stern Review: 20 years on ‘the stakes have never been higher’

Nicholas Stern

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The book that Booker missed

Emma Cline’s ‘Switzy’, a raw, funny novel about a dying tycoon’s last trip to a Swiss clinic, is as vital as anything on this year’s shortlist

Susie Mesure

LS Lowry was weirder than you think

David McAllister

The many revolutions of John Berger

Christopher Bray

Dracula is back from the dead

David Barnett

World

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World

Three weeks that changed the fight for democracy

A new politics is taking shape in Brazil

Pedro Abramovay

Democracy isn’t dead yet, just look at Serbia and Brazil

Israel’s election: why Netanyahu is still in the race

Alona Ferber

The burning demands of France’s teenagers

Diane de Vignemont

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Policy Insights

Education reset

Essential skills, the impact of artificial intelligence and the future of work for the younger generations

Policy Insights

Data centres and Britain’s resilience

Where every crisis becomes visible

Maíra Fedatto

What does an inclusive, community-led AI revolution look like?