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JULY 15. 2025

Jen Calleja, the punk-rock translator

Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear

Au revoir les philosophes

France used to revere its intellectuals – but the men moaning about ‘le wokisme’ are intellectual lightweights

‘They almost shot me for getting rice and chickpeas’

In Gaza, Mahmoud once dreamed of finishing his studies and making a life for himself. Now he just dreams of survival

The deepest view into the universe yet

A new telescope, 2,650 metres up on a mountainside in Chile, is one of the most ambitious astronomical projects of our times

Social media is dead – you just haven’t noticed

A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end

Could the Leveson Review spell the end of trial by jury?

A new proposal to restrict the use of trial by jury could fundamentally undermine the justice system

Dilettante: My stand against the London-haters

Bashing the capital has become a popular and lucrative hobby for a number of right wing figures

Mark Gatiss, the most bookish man on the box

The creator and star of a new postwar drama talks literature, the second world war and unconventional Hollywood marriages

The long forgotten words that live on undercover

Though the word ‘swain’ may itself be obsolete in English today, there are still traces of it hanging around in our modern English language

Does it matter if The Salt Path is made up?

It’s just the latest in a long line of books that weren’t what they seemed

Alastair Campbell’s diary: Yes, it’s a genocide

Fence sitting is no longer possible, or right. The manner and scale of Israel’s demolition of Gaza goes way beyond either legal proportion or respect for civilian life

Wetherspoon serves up its revenge cold

The Brexit-supporting pub chain has published a 20-page magazine detailing all the times it's been unfairly maligned in the media

Trump/Trump is no Frost/Nixon

The president was quizzed by his own daughter-in-law for a Fox News interview which avoided hard questions

JULY 14. 2025

Inquiries don’t work

Victims do not get their compensation, quick action to fix obvious problems is impossible and the guilty escape the blame.