America is not the world

From British exit to Britain’s break-up

Poised with her pen in front of an outsize Union flag

If I ruled the world

These days we’re more connected than ever through technology.

Learning to love Britain

In their excellent articles, Ross McKibbin and Maurice

Corporate remodelling

Lisa Nandy’s article (“Fix the ideas first,” April)

Take it back

Remainers do not understand the nature of the referendum

Own your robot

Duncan Weldon predicts that robots will be installed

What’s in a name?

Afua Hirsch’s call to “reframe what it means to be

Trump’s not ill

Anna Blundy’s anti-psychiatry bias is a regular feature

Start ruling today

Harriet Harman (“If I ruled the world,” March) would

In fact

Apple has created and supported 4.8m jobs in China

Twig the truth about Scotland

Learn from history, and plan for a practical, working divorce

Don’t give in to fear

Stand firm against terror—and the latest snooping wheeze

The art of the impossible deal

Brits want very different things out of Brexit. May can’t please them all

Under cover laws

Who cares how women dress?

How to fix the refugee crisis

Separate safe havens from the migration debate, and the practical answers become clear

Division, disruption and demons past

Whatever deal Brexit Britain makes with the EU, the Irish are going to suffer

Rage runs into a dead end

US Republicans turned Obamacare into a demon, but they’ll never lay it to rest

The other British isles

Amid the sheep and battlefields of the Falklands, the diversity is a surprise

Is Sgt Pepper still worth the hype?

On its release—on 1st June 1967— Sgt Pepper’s Lonely

Uneven reports on inequality

Jeremy says it is racing away, Theresa says it is falling. They can’t both be right, and in fact they’re both wrong. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have an inequality problem

Normal nation, neurotic neighbour

The Union has been in decline for decades. The root problem is not turbulent Scots, it is a very English failure to develop a healthy nationalism south of the border

Is it winnable?

It is not a surprise that the debate about Scottish

Is it affordable?

Economics was pretty much invented in Scotland, and

Trigger unhappy

The letter is sent, but the die is not cast. Britain could change course—and it might

The revolution will be digitised

How politics got tangled up in the web

The nowhere neighbourhood

London is building a new district where no local can afford to live

Brief encounter

The Festival of Britain of 1951, when I was five years

After Islamic State

Collapse may come swiftly—but will that leave the world any safer?

I spy nationalism

A former head of MI6 says that, though the White House commands our attention, Europe is the greater worry

Can Somalia be saved?

The upbeat new leader of the world’s frailest state is banking on his deep connections with the US

Where late the sweet birds sang

The English Reformation silenced a noisy, inclusive and generous way of life, says Giles Fraser. But that doesn’t mean we should all turn back to Rome

The men who hated Britain

A gripping and very funny account of the Daily Mail reveals its brutal brilliance, says Michael White

When fiction trumps El Supremo

Novelists searching for clues on tackling Donald Trump would do well to revisit the preening strongmen of Latin American literature, argues Miranda France

Notes from the edge

Thomas Adès is the most gifted British composer of his time, but his love of musical extremes holds him back, argues Ivan Hewett

Books in brief

Olivier Roy is one of the most interestingly provocative

Recommends Art

In 1956, Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss- French artist

Recommends Theatre

Political rhetoric has never seemed so worn, nor demagoguery

Recommends Classical

Nobody fills a melodic line with greater depth of colour

Recommends Film

This animated film about a 10-year-old boy in care

Recommends Opera

Inspired by Schiller’s 1787 dramatic poem, Verdi’s

Recommends Science

The Francis Crick Institute, which opened last year

Events

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Nudges and NEST eggs

Whether it’s a nudge or a hard shove, governments around

Setting hard-earned savings to work

Having been Minister for Pensions for approaching a

Leith on language

It occurred to me the other day—being, as I am, a semi-retired

Life of the mind

My patient arrived puffy and sleepy from pregnancy.

Matters of taste

Tarek Alameddine is a big friendly guy from a small

Wine

Can wine be made out of anything other than grapes?

DIY investor

At about this time every year, the stock market adage

Calling—and not calling—snap elections

Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine