World » 2 weeks ago
Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how it came aboutTwo years ago, Deborah Levy came across a cartoon that sparked her ima...
World » 2 weeks ago
From the value of your pension to your holidays, the turmoil from Trump’s yo-yoing trade policies will have an impactA trade war with China and suggestions Donald Trump will sack the head of the Federal Reserve have weighed heavily on the US stock market. It was already r...
World » 2 weeks ago
Offer announcing charges for use in EU seems incongruous to customer stripped of free calls and text add-onI have received a text message from EE stating that it is “shaking up its roaming products”, with a link to a page announcing that “roaming is getting ...
World » 2 weeks ago
Centrists won’t beat Reform UK by echoing its messages. They should emphasise the true unworkability of policies like BrexitIn the middle of an election or the early stages of an administration, populist politics can feel like a liberation. The unsayable is said. Politica...
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Our political history is one of catastrophe, communism, and developing powerful antibodies against oppression In 2016, one year after the rightwing populist Law and Justice party ...
World » 2 weeks ago
From the Canadian elections to universities and civil society, the campaign to turn the tide against anti-liberal nationalists is at last underwayLiberals of all countries, unite! Just as anti-liberal powers outside the west are becoming stronger than ever, the assault on...
World » 2 weeks ago
The blue dot of GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder mountain rescuers are being called out so oftenIt does not involve protest or violence, but it might be the quintessential human image of our times: a small group of people in the midst of spectac...
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From Samuel Pepys to Joan Didion, many literary greats wrote for no one but themselves – then found posterity pawing through their secrets. Trust me: you don’t want to know my innermost thoughtsA few years ago, a friend asked me to be her “literary executor”. We were both...
Science » 2 weeks ago
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: At our livery yard, we and the vets are forever on the lookout for illness. I’m grateful that my own horse, Jamie, lived to nearly 30A woodpecker drums, as if signalling my arrival. I’ve been past this grave many ti...