What’s in a haircut?

Long life

Playing for laughs

Sporting life

A family under threat

Displaced life

Curing clergy burnout

Clerical life

Is going out over?

Young life

Can drinking ever be good for us?

Mindful life

When the wind blows

Farming life

Your rights are at risk

The government’s overhaul of human rights law threatens to empower the state at the expense of everybody else

Xi Jinping’s brave new world

The Chinese leader wants his countr y to have the world’s most successful economy— and he won’t let the west’s qualms about human rights stand in his way

The re-greening of Ireland

The astonishing surge of Sinn Féin north and south of the border shows the old political dividing lines are changing across Ireland—and with them the debate on re-unification

Spent FORCE?

Institutionally corrupt? Racist? Complacent? The police are coming under increasing attack from left, right and centre. Duncan Campbell investigates why

Where have all the good chaps gone?

The veteran historian Peter Hennessy— always a fan of an unwritten constitution— thinks that, after Johnson, it is time to start writing some things down

Venture playground

The quiet revolutionaries who turbocharged capitalism—and the Silicon Valley giants

Give me fizz

Jan Morris teaches us to have fun intelligently, revelling in food, architecture, music and sunshine

A millionaire of words

One hundred years on, James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ still has a high-definition freshness and intimacy

The world as it is

Hanya Yanagihara’s speculative new novel imagines different kinds of utopia—and finds them wanting

Books in brief

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, Kingdom of Characters, Otherlands, Free Love, Love Marriage

Art

In praise of the exhibition that 25 years ago whetted the nation’s appetite for experimental art

Classical

Composer Cassandra Miller’s music is some of the most tender and truthful being written today

Screen

Abbas Kiarostami portrayed childhood with great sensitivity. But his son says he was a tyrant

Screen

Stop-start theatre performances are leaving actors and audiences in a state of uncertainty

More important than ever

A panel of leading figures defends the BBC

How to save the BBC …and why it still matters

Slashing the BBC’s budget and threatening its future funding make for good red-meat populist politics, cheered on by newspaper owners who think they stand to gain. But where is the calm, rational debate about the future of public service broadcasting, and why it matters more than ever? Twelve leading figures make a start…

The progress of time

Isabel Allende

Come rain or shine

Nathan Law

Watered down

Sandy Sullivan

On the front line

Roopa Farooki

Brief encounter

David Baddiel

The Generalist by Didymus

Can you crack the crossword?

Jeffrey Epstein was a pimp like any other

Sarah Ditum

Without Johnson, the Tories face the electoral wilderness

Max Wind-Cowie

Stephen Collins

Cartoon

It’s all over for Johnson

Rachel Sylvester

Improving the algorithm

Ethan Zuckerman

The joy of lex

Banter

Diary

Jojo Moyes

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