Contributors

The writers in this month's issue

People

Harry Sever, Max Lawton, Jaime Yassif, Venki Ramakrishnan, Catherine Blaiklock

Letters

Words from our readers

In Fact

Would you believe?...

Safety-first won’t save the internet

Ethan Zuckerman

Philosopher-at-large: The power of anxiety

Sasha Mudd

The joy of lex: Sewage

Sarah Ogilvie

Politics is facing communication breakdown

Sam Freedman

Diary

Jen Stout, foreign correspondent

Brief encounter

Sathnam Sanghera, journalist & author

The Spy Papers

An exclusive investigation by Nick Davies

TOP MPS HACKED!

Murdoch’s company did not, it’s claimed, just hack phones to get a scoop. It hacked elected politicians—and for commercial ends

DELETED!

Rupert Murdoch’s company was required to preserve evidence of illegal voicemail interception. Instead, it erased nearly 31 million emails!

Labour's Chance

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will inherit a country in economic crisis. The times call not for modest ambition, but for daring

What happens at sea

After a dinghy sank in the Channel and multiple migrants drowned, the teenager who had piloted the boat was charged with manslaughter. Was this justice?

State of failure

When a country cannot get to the truth in real time and must rely on a process years after wards, something has gone very wrong

Heroin's fatal mixer

Synthetic opioids have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in America. Now one group of such drugs—nitazenes—is increasingly being found in Britain

Ars gratia vitae

Salman Rushdie has chosen to counter violence with something stronger—his art. Do the rest of us have the courage to follow?

Heavenly body

Silver Moon was more than just a bookshop—it was how many people, especially women, found themselves

You’ll be a man, my son

Charles Spencer’s new book highlights the cruelty of his time in an English preparatory school in the 1970s. That cruelty, in that system, persisted

Books in brief

Recommended reading...

Film: The blood-spattered banner

In Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’—as in so many other recent films—the greatest threat comes from within

Stage: Long days, longer plays

A production of Eugene O’Neill drags, while an abridged Shakespeare zips along

TV: Not a scoop

What was the point of Netflix’s behind-the-scenes re-enactment of the Prince Andrew interview?

Passion after Passion

Classical notes

A little bit of flex

Sporting life

Options open

Young life

Waste not

Farming life

Hospital visits

Clerical life

Tick tock

Mindful life

Solidarity

Sex life

A bad habit

Long life

Puzzles

Crossword & Bobby Seagull's brain teaser