Thessaloniki
The city that forgot itself
The tortured twentieth-century history of the once cosmopolitan Thessaloniki
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries