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JUNE 17. 2025

Nerd’s Eye View: 16 things you need to know about Glastonbury

Digging into the details and data to separate the noise from the news

Why do the Brexit betrayed still believe in Farage?

Nine years on, Leave’s most enthusiastic voters have suffered the most. Yet they’re still backing the man who sold them the snake oil in the first place

Can Blue Labour see off Farage?

Jonathan Rutherford’s Blue Labour ideas are at the heart of No 10’s political plans. But will it be enough to save Keir Starmer at the next election?

No weather was going to rain on Donald Trump’s parade

Rain or shine, Trump craves adoration – which was his motivation for the spectacle to mark the US Army’s 250th anniversary all along

Can you ever truly understand an artist?

Meeting the painter Sean Scully was an opportunity to ask him about his art – but do the questions make any sense?

The curious case of Gen Z’s Handmaid’s Tale

Thirty years after it was first published to indifference, Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men is a literary sensation

Bigi Bravo is set for 20 years in power

For the last 15 years, Ronnie Brunswijk and his party have been Suriname’s kingmakers, never the king. Until now

March of the symbolic capitalists

American sociologist Musa al-Gharbi thinks woke protesters are sincere – but they’re equally committed to being wealthy

Dilettante: Why I’m feeling ravenous for European history

Trying to understand one part of European history feels like picking up a thread and realising, gradually, that it leads to an entire quilt

Everyday philosophy: Why the world needs debate

An open exchange of ideas, no matter how controversial or unpopular, is the best way to get closer to the truth

As the world burns, peers talk of the terrace

With so much happening across the globe, members of the upper house debated their own access to the House of Commons terrace

JUNE 16. 2025

Morrissey wants the one he can’t have

The former Smiths man wanted to work with Nick Cave - but put him off with a "slightly silly anti-woke screed"

Truss invites ridicule for the Washington Post

The short-lived former prime minister's op-ed for Jeff Bezos's newspaper did not go down well with readers

The lessons of Greece’s summer of tears

Ten years on, the country’s treatment in the midst of financial crisis remains a stain on European democracy