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Editorial

It was, of all people, US Senator Bernie Sanders who

Letters

Tom Clark and Alex Dean (“Judges in the dock,” March)

Citizen Khan: the London mayor and Labour’s long road back to power

After suffering its worst election defeat since the

The unpalatable lesson of coronavirus: dictatorships can be effective

When the World Health Organisation Director- General

Class denialism is the creed of the metropolitan elite

After leading the Conservatives to a resounding victory

Even when Modi loses, he wins. Because his rivals have bought into his agenda

Less than a year ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra

The executive power project

The middle class, according to some historians, is

Sagging smile

The phrase “mid-life crisis” might call to mind a stolid

Should Britain rejoin the EU now?

YESPatience, I am phenomenally concerned. By 1st July

Special report: Pensions

Public policy and personal investment challenges in an ageing society

Forget the moral panic-early treatment for trans children could be life-saving

Stephen Whittle, Professor of Equalities Law at Manchester Metropolitan University

Making a killing

The story of a Scottish town, an international arms company, broken laws—and a devastating war in the Middle East

Keir Starmer: the case for the defence

On a winter’s evening in 1986-7, a 24-year-old law

Will this man break Brexit Britain?

As the EU’s new trade boss, Irishman Phil Hogan has the power to determine the UK’s economic future. What will he do with it?

THE URGENT NEED TO RENEW REASON

We are hurtling towards seven existential crises, each

Sticking points

Where the negotiations may falter

Rise and fall of a dictator

The world indicted Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir for genocide. But in the end more mundane matters, like the price of bread, proved to be his undoing

Capital idea

Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose theory of inequality conquered the world, is back. This time with a theory of everything

Girl, boy, other

In the last 10 years there has been an extraordinary increase in teenage girls wanting to change their gender. Have NHS services been too quick to conclude that becoming male will solve all their problems?

Giving up the ghosts

The final volume of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy is superbly accomplished, beautifully observed but ultimately wearying. By Freya Johnston

The disappearing artist

Under the wig and sunglasses who was the real Andy Warhol, asks Emma Crichton-Miller

Blowing up the canon

Before the current debates about diversity in publishing, one house was putting women writers on the map, finds Frances Wilson

Prospectlife

If you were to ask my daughter who is in our immediate

Events

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Brief encounter

Moral philosopher and animal rights activist