Brief encounter

Editorial

The British state is navigating the choppiest waters

Letters & opinions

The articles about the monarchy in the September issue

Brexit is rooted in the ground beneath our feet

Loyalty to where we’re born is what creates the space for democracy

A failure of history

Russia’s Revolution is recalled in a misleading monochrome

The fiction that boys shouldn’t cry

Why reading books would make men more empathetic

Unlawful and unjust

Poland’s ruling party can win elections, but it subverts the rule of law on which democracy depends

The House rules

The Speaker of the Commons on how parliament can be improved

When Congress told Trump—you’re fired!

Capitol Hill has quietly terminated a noisy presidency, where foreign affairs are concerned

The fourth revolution

The government is fighting to keep hi-tech industries in a post-Brexit Britain

Turning the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy into reality

Turning the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy into

No justice, no peace\

Can a court’s decision to annul Kenya’s election change the course of the nation?

The world’s nuclear weapons

Who’s got them? How many? And how big?

The political is personal

Forget ideas, organisation and policy. Every British and American election in 70 years has boiled down to the character thing—who is the leader that’s got what it takes?

Sorry Andrew, context trumps character

Leaders alone cannot account for the outcome of all

Charm and steel

A pro-European among Brexiteers and a liberal at the Home Office, Amber Rudd has shown herself to be a flexible operator. But could she make it to the top, asks Gaby Hinsliff

Don’t call her baby

Jo Swinson turned down the chance to lead her party, but this tough-minded Lib Dem is biding her time, says Rachel Sylvester

Dropped out, tuned in

The Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner, explains Jennifer Williams, is an increasingly rare Labour MP, who doesn’t just talk about social mobility—but embodies it

Death of an American myth

For good and ill, the US has always believed that it is an exceptional nation. Not any more

Meet the Mastos

A Syrian family moves to Ohio—is there a place for them in Trump’s America?

Is this the man to stand up to Trump?

UN Secretary General António Guterres is everything the American president is not. But is he ready to lead?

Should there be another EU referendum?

The Duel

Britain’s new Gaullists

The Brexit bunch would shudder to admit it—but they are following a decidedly French script

The winding road to Remain

The clock is ticking, the die is cast—or is it? As the Brexit talks go nowhere fast, we map the bumps in the road that could, conceivably, see the UK reconsider, and Remain in 2019

The machine in the ghost

His mind was the most powerful motor in modern philosophy. But as a human being, Gottlob Frege was a narrow man who left no mark

Balancing acts

The Bank of England’s tussles with the Treasury—from the gold standard to the Crash—have shaped the nation’s economy for 300 years, says Robert Skidelsky

The art of rebellion

Artists in Turkey are finding different ways to cope in an increasingly authoritarian environment, reports Suna Erdem

Playing with power

James Graham tells Andrew Dickson about his new play tracing Labour’s ups and downs—and his plans for a British version of The West Wing

Schlocky horror show

Stephen King’s films are hugely successful—but he’d rather you stick to the books, says Tim Martin

Books in brief

Germany’s invasion of the USSR left a psychological

Recommends Art

Cézanne’s Portraits National Portrait Gallery, 26th

Safety and data

Cyber-security has disrupted politics, with the row

Leith on language

Are we all still here? I write in optimism, because

At home in the White House

Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine