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Simon Barnes
My week as a Venus’s flower basket
Wed 25 Mar 2026
Kenan Malik
How do we transform society when we are more disconnected than ever?
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Lucien Young
Dear Keir: I don’t want to strap myself to a rocket and hand the launch controls to Trump
Sat 21 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a Chinese pangolin
Sat 21 Mar 2026
Marie Le Conte
Boxing is like a mating dance between two birds
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Want to tell a story? Then ditch the phone
Fri 20 Mar 2026
John Naughton
Claude’s won a battle with ChatGPT, but network effects will always win the war
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Tim Leunig
Chancellor’s push for fiscal devolution may face opposition from mayors
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Sarah Manavis
Inside the scary world of the ‘anti-fan’
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Liv Little
Why we still love Louis Theroux
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Brett Wigdortz
A child who doesn’t know how to play won’t know how to learn
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Philip Collins
Starmer must cling on to Jonathan Powell, who warned him Mandelson was trouble
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Kenan Malik
Why so many missed the point of the Economist’s Khamenei obituary
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Will Hutton
We can escape the state we’re in
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Lucien Young
Dear Keir: don’t do anything rash, like slagging off your mate on Truth Social
Sat 14 Mar 2026
William Keegan
The history of energy crises in the UK has much to teach this government
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Iona Bain
Take a few holiday-let snaps to avoid damaging your good time
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Erica Wagner
I wasn’t bored by The Secret Agent, I just couldn’t stay. It’s actually a compliment
Sat 14 Mar 2026
John Naughton
AI is like the first car: it will revolutionise a world that has not yet been built for it
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Róisín Lanigan
Nothing’s more stressful than this cortisol craze
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Sarah Manavis
Let’s stop defending shallow art as made ‘for women’
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a red kangaroo
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Martha Gill
British seaside towns are sinking
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Frank Skinner
I thought AI was a Geordie greeting until it took over my dad gig
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Philip Collins
Trump says Starmer is no Churchill. He has no idea what that means
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Kenan Malik
Why Labour lost the minority vote in the Gorton and Denton byelection
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Patrick Kidd
Audrey Emerton, nursing leader and peer
Sat 7 Mar 2026
John Naughton
Make AI more like a human? It’s far too clever for that
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Dubai’s influencers discover you can’t curate a war
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a marsh harrier
Mon 2 Mar 2026
William Keegan
Not content with Brexit harm, Reform plans pensions raid
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Will Hutton
Rachel Reeves should have a spring in her step as shoots of recovery push through
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Andrew Rawnsley
Gorton and Denton will force Labour to rethink – it is no longer the only anti-Reform option
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Eva Wiseman
Chatbots can break your heart
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Róisín Lanigan
Haven’t you heard? Living next to a pub is noisy
Fri 27 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Amazon’s new AI writing culture is selling short our powers of productive thinking
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as an orchid mantis
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Frank Skinner
There’s no joy an idiot with a smartphone can’t kill
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Andrew Rawnsley
Don’t underestimate the Windsors’ ruthless drive to survive
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Will Hutton
This royal crisis is the moment to redefine Britain’s monarchy
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Lucien Young
I could manage the hell out of Waitrose
Fri 20 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Big tech profited from our attention – now AI wants to monetise intentions
Fri 20 Feb 2026
John Niven
Writing for the stage? I’m mad for it
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Sarah Manavis
The America’s Next Top Model doc is reheated voyeurism posing as disgust
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Tim Leunig
The great British holiday is dying. Here’s how to save it
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Alex O’Connell
Monet’s snoozing son was captivating – and I almost slept through it
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a whitetip reef shark
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Eva Wiseman
Why slime is the start of the slippery slope for tween skincare
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Marie Le Conte
Time to see sensei: can karate help us kick our frustrations?
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Jessy Parker Humphreys
Team GB is joyously camp – all glitter, if not so much gold
Mon 16 Feb 2026
Andrew Rawnsley
Keir Starmer’s leadership hangs between survival and collapse
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Will Hutton
Andrew has brought the royals to a tipping point
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Rowan Moore
Courtesy, resilience and jazz shine through powerless Havana nights
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
Ruling on Palestine Action is a timely defence of free speech and civil liberties
Sun 15 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Thinking digital technology is ‘weightless’ means your head is in the clouds
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Róisín Lanigan
Slackers are obsolete characters. Who can afford to be lazy any more?
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Lucien Young
Wes Streeting’s welcome to step outside
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Eva Wiseman
The naked dress trend is a bum steer on the red carpet
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a marine iguana
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Martha Gill
Struggling for punters and prizes, British horse racing might fall at the last
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Melanie Reid
It’s easier to find a dog-walker than a carer
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
The Epstein files reveal more than depravity, they unmask how the elite operates
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Lucien Young
Mandy lied to me. Really I’m the victim
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Frank Skinner
I feel for Harry Styles’s fans, tickets for West Brom’s ’68 cup final were out of my league too
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Róisín Lanigan
Three hours? There’s no way I’m watching that movie
Fri 6 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Call my AI agent! Chatbots can now post on their own version of Reddit
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Liv Little
The world is burning – so turn on a relentlessly stressful season of Industry
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Elif Shafak
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let it come true
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Eva Wiseman
The beautiful and damned: the grisly truth about beauty procedures
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a brown-throated three-toed sloth
Tue 3 Feb 2026
Will Hutton
As its unicorns falter, China eyes UK’s surging tech dragons
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Andrew Rawnsley
Reform is turning into a recycling centre for toxic Tories
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
Britain’s deprived areas need attention for their own sake, not merely to beat Reform
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Séamas O'Reilly
A fond fatherly farewell
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Lucien Young
Xi doesn’t worry about backbenchers or rude questions from Beth Rigby
Sat 31 Jan 2026
John Naughton
‘AI swarms’ are mass-producing misinformation. Democracy may get stung
Fri 30 Jan 2026
John Niven
When bands play live for the love of it, it’s priceless
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Eva Wiseman
The dark truth about ‘looksmaxxing’
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a song thrush
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Andrew Anthony
Katie Miller, Maga podcaster and flag-toting chaos queen
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Melanie Reid
I am trapped, paralysed and fighting chronic pain – let me decide when it ends
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Lucien Young
Dear Keir: I have been forced into endless U-turns and now poll worse than most STIs
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Giles Whittell
Rumours of realpolitik were rife at Davos. Thank heavens for Matt Damon
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Kenan Malik
The New Right’s vision of community depends on obedience
Sat 24 Jan 2026
Séamas O’Reilly
Snookered by my brothers
Sat 24 Jan 2026
Philip Collins
Mark Carney’s Davos speech was a masterclass. History will decide how great it was
Sat 24 Jan 2026
Frank Skinner
I winced when Brooklyn pressed the Insta button
Sat 24 Jan 2026
Róisín Lanigan
London isn’t a hellhole but its tourist sites are
Fri 23 Jan 2026
John Naughton
Guess who the US military just recruited? Private AI
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Sarah Manavis
Sympathy for the rebel Beckham, who has always been tabloid fodder
Wed 21 Jan 2026
Simon Barnes
My week as a bolas spider
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Eva Wiseman
Why sunbeds need a roasting
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Harriet Meyer
Human intelligence: How to use AI to plan your holiday
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Marie Le Conte
Snooker is like a large-scale piece of experimental theatre
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Kenan Malik
The left and right are spinning Iran’s story for their own ends
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Séamas O’Reilly
Fit and 40? I’m working on it
Sat 17 Jan 2026
John Naughton
The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Erica Wagner
Hamnet and Marty Supreme are all vibe, no story. Hollywood has lost the plot
Fri 16 Jan 2026
