Tolerance at the end of its tether

Foreword

Labour looks death in the eye

If I ruled the world

If I ruled the world, all politicians, including presidents

Letters & opinions

Writing on the subject of Brexit (“Posturing behind

The May mirage

The PM’s dominance might look total, but she could come unstuck

Turkey’s next coup

Erdog˘an’s referendum is a bid for total power

Rainbow nation, racist backstory

Britain can’t face the future until it takes an unflinching look at its past

Fools rush in

We can no longer assume that London and Washington agree on Moscow

Learn to love a robot

Droids won’t steal your job. With luck, they’ll make you rich

The People’s Republic of Prato

Tuscany’s Chinatown is shrugging off the slump, but integration remains a challenge

Should we regret the Bolshevik Revolution?

One hundred years ago this spring, there were remarkable

It’s the job market, stupid!

If you’re baffled by Trump’s rise take a look at the grim realities of American working life

The red sag

Labour’s problems are far deeper than Jeremy Corbyn, tracing back to the mid-20th century. But things will get worse unless he goes. The great bulk of MPs should now walk away

Sobering Dismal Precedent

Breaking up is hard to do. The Gang of Four, who left

Fix the ideas first

No organisational wheeze will rescue my party. But a determined agenda to tackle unaccountable power could win back support—right across our fractured country

John Bercow

Speaker of the House of Commons

Galloping girl

Tory or radical, prude or saucepot—there have been many Jane Austens down the ages. But her genius lies in dramatising the thrilling risks of living at breakneck speed

Working class zero

Paul Nuttall crashed in Stoke. But a sharper operator could still revive the northern right

Back in the emergency room

Since its birth, the NHS has periodically seen off financial crises, charges of unsustainability, and wheezes that would change the basic model. Is this time any different?

Thirty year march of the Front National

Marine Le Pen is frighteningly close to making the unthinkable happen in France.

A melody of voices

Svetlana Alexievich’s ear for the testimony of war and hardship made her a Nobel laureate. In a rare interview, she reveals how she marries the craft of journalism with the novelist’s art

Casino capitalism

Gambling has always been part of financial markets, from their origins in 17th-century coffee houses to the Great Crash of 2008. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature

The slow ruin of Edinburgh

The planting of a “golden turd” in the heart of Scotland’s capital reveals the grotesquely skewed priorities of current urban planning

The tragedy of Yitzhak Rabin

Israel’s gruff soldier-statesman was the last best hope for peace, says Avi Shlaim

Recommends Art

In 1861, parliament abolished the death penalty for

The deplorables fight back

Brexit exposed a complacent liberal consensus, argues Maurice Glasman

Recommends Theatre

This spectacular rendition of the 1933 Ruby Keeler

Recommends Classical

America’s greatest living composer, John Adams, celebrates

I am, therefore I think

Words turned our brains into minds, and got us hung up on the ghost in the machine. But a new book isn’t going to banish that spectre, says Julian Baggini

Recommends Film

French-Belgian director Julia Ducournau’s remarkably

All the president’s sorrows

A fictionalised account of Abraham Lincoln’s life is unlike any other historical novel you will ever read, says Fatema Ahmed

Recommends Opera

ETO makes its first foray into the world of Gilbert

Recommends Science

Birmingham International Conference Centre, 11th April

Books in brief

The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of

Events

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Leith on language

I was having lunch the other day with the publisher

Life of the mind

Is your partner a psychopath? Is your partner a sociopath?

Matters of taste

St Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was actually born in

Wine

Have you heard of Danish wine? Neither had I until

DIY investor

In early April, the ever-expanding Isa family will

The generalist by Didymus

1 Athenian philosopher and founder of the Cynic School

Enigmas & puzzles

At the Packet School for gifted children, Stamp and

Leaving the club: France takes back control

Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine