AUGUST 1. 2025

Amir Ahmadi Arian: In Evin Prison

In​ the early morning of 23 June, the day before Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire, Israel bombed Evin Prison in Tehran, killing at least 79 people. It was the deadliest attack on a single. ..

Susannah Clapp: On Hallie Flanagan

From 1935 to 1939, Flanagan ran the most extraordinary of stage ventures, a dramatic instance of imagination spurred by. ..

David Renton: Short Cuts

With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has. ..

Adam Phillips: On Resistance

Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to. ..

Ferdinand Mount: Biff-Bang

It is the least convincing cliché of the age that ‘globalisation has passed its sell-by date. ’ On the contrary, ...

Jonathan Coe: Don’t we all want to be happy?

Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later. ..

Patricia Lockwood: Diary

It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker, ...

Josephine Quinn: Born on the Beach

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the. ..

James Vincent: Where the Power Is

Phosphates are locked inside rocks, folded into continental strata or scattered as sediment on the ocean floor. It is. ..

Barbara Newman: Dirty Books

Boccaccio took great pains with the Decameron. He revised it extensively and produced several copies with his own hand, ...

Jeremy Harding: At the Musée Carnavalet

‘Couple dans une gare parisienne’ In​ 1959, the French monthly Réalités ran a piece by Bernard Frank, a precocious novelist and former protégé of. ..

JULY 31. 2025

Ecology at the end of the world

Climate activists need to come together to build connection, community and movements - aims and principles can come later.

Why is the government still using X?

Departments are continuing to use Elon Musk's platform to put out official announcements despite it stoking violence and division

Labour and the Tories are in even greater danger than they think

New polling suggests that UK voters might have finally had enough of the two main parties

Britain isn’t working

Our parliamentary system is not fit for purpose. But what can we do about it?

Where is Liz Truss’s ‘uncensorable’ new social media network?

The short-lived former prime minister vowed to launch her new social media network to take on the "deep state" this summer, but it has yet to arrive

Andrew Neil and the Brexit bus to nowhere

Neil's latest Daily Mail column claims that Donald Trump obliterated Ursula von der Leyen's career. Suddenly, we're back in 2016 all over again. ..

National Guard Ordered to Do ICE Paperwork at Immigration Facilities in 20 States

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between military and law enforcement.

U. S. Security Contractors in Gaza Risk War Crimes Charges, Democrats Say

Democrats said veterans working for U. S. security contractors on Trump’s Gaza aid effort may face legal risks.

Matt Kelly’s picks of the week: Gary Lineker on speaking his truth

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