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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Like a homecoming
A haunted house