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  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    When it comes to incompetence, sometimes a reshuffle isn’t enough

    Johnson’s cabinet moves this week revealed the difficulties of appointing ministers in the first place

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    Sport
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    The youthful thrill of seeing the world open up is easy to forget, and all but impossible to recapture

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
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  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    Extinction Rebellion
    Extinction Rebellion may be annoying but it has a vital function

    Despite its missteps, the group reflects public concern about climate change

  • Wednesday, 1 September, 2021
    Travel
    Shelf life — my dream weekend running a bookshop

    Book Towns are thriving around the world but Wigtown in Scotland goes one better, giving visitors the keys to their own shop

  • Tuesday, 24 August, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
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  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Books
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    Peter Florence turned a tiny festival into a global brand. Now he has had to resign

  • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
    Climate change
    Political inaction is dragging the UK deeper into the climate crisis

    Global warming is the defining issue of our times, but among policymakers there is no urgency

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    News in-depthEngland
    England’s ‘freedom day’ marked by public restraint

    While some welcome end of most Covid restrictions, others are fearful about rising infections

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Space exploration
    Branson, Bezos and the pointless billionaire space race

    Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Andrew Lloyd Webber: ‘I don’t feel like a Conservative at the moment’

    The composer’s £60m theatre restoration is complete and Cinderella, his new musical, is about to open. So why isn’t he happier?

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Social Media
    I’m a Twitter addict and I don’t care

    The social networking site is a place to make pithy jokes, improve writing skills and connect with people

  • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
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    The tennis championships offer much more than Pimm’s, strawberries and expensive towels

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Labour Party UK
    Keir Starmer has a second chance to save Labour

    The party leader must seize on the Batley and Spen by-election result and start winning back voters

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    UK politics & policy
    Chesham and Amersham is the revenge of the Metropolitan Line elite

    The Conservatives’ by-election defeat shows that British politics is normalising

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    Football
    The duelling patriotism of English football fans

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    House & Home
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    Arlene Foster: ‘If the union is to succeed, we need to be a bigger tent’

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    UK politics & policy
    Britain’s culture war is not really taking place

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    Travel & leisure industry
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    England’s residents can venture abroad once again, but holidays overseas are not what they used to be

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Voters have been forgiving this time — but it won’t last

    Labour leader Keir Starmer needs a new plan after exiting the pandemic has been seen as more important than sleaze

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