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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.
Letters & opinions
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
America is not the world
For all Trump’s bluster, the fight against climate change will continue—even in the US
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
View from the Falklands
The other British isles
Amid the sheep and battlefields of the Falklands, the diversity is a surprise
The Duel
Is Sgt Pepper still worth the hype?
On its release—on 1st June 1967— Sgt Pepper’s Lonely
Speed data
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
Features
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
Arts & books
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
Things to do this month
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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
Life
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
Endgames
Calling—and not calling—snap elections
Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine
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