What the hell is wrong with Suella Braverman?
The home secretary is giving voice to the basest of her party’s instincts
What the hell is wrong with Suella Braverman?
Britain’s new home secretary is giving voice to the basest of her party’s instincts – and the faithful love her for it
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Burning down the house
Mortgages helped cause the 2008 financial crash. Now they may bring about a new crisis
How Il Duce duped Italy
One hundred years ago, a malign figure took power in Rome and led a country to disgrace and destruction
Haunted, high and low: a-ha’s 40-year quest for respect
The Norwegian trio’s new album arrives with their legacy secure - but it hasn’t always been that way
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Everyday Philosophy: Why we pay attention to autumn leaves
Our ancestors reacted quickly to seasonal change. It's time for us to prepare for the cold months ahead
Wideangle: The national spend
What do European nations spend their money on?
Musk, Cummings, Trump: Three stooges for Putin’s aggression
Elon Musk’s 'peace plan poll' would trample Ukraine’s right to defend its own people from Vladimir Putin’s onslaught
What the hell is wrong with Suella Braverman?
The home secretary is giving voice to the basest of her party’s instincts
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The dishonourable Paul Dacre
Why are so many stories that are bad for the government unreported in large sections of the press? Simple. Intellectual corruption
The pointless war on GDPR
Changing the current system will be disruptive, time-consuming, expensive and counterproductive
Burning down the house
Mortgages helped cause the 2008 financial crash. Now they may bring about a new crisis
Germansplaining: Why Berlin’s poll failed
After last year's election disaster in the capital, trust in Germany's democracy needs to be restored
How Il Duce duped Italy
One hundred years ago, a malign figure took power in Rome and led a country to disgrace and destruction
Giorgia Meloni is heading for a fall
The new Italian PM’s policies are a mess of contradictions and she will struggle against the country’s liberal instincts and independent institutions
The Mail’s cold war with Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch vocalised that Lord Rothermere's Mail titles were making a blunder in championing Truss to lead the Tories
Is Michael Gove backtracking over Brexit?
One journalist told MANDRAKE that Gove just saw Brexit as a chance to socialise and enjoy a sense of comradeship with 'Brexity people'
Is one of Boris Johnson’s loyal supporters in for a reward?
Curiously, Boris Johnson thinks that Andrew Roberts, an avid supporter of the former PM, should receive a peerage in his resignation honours list
Farage remains in high spirits
The former Ukip leader's latest party may be struggling but he's personally quids in
Mendoza’s Canary is uncaged
The hard-left website's staff have taken charge and plan to run it as a co-operative
Does Burns face a little local difficulty?
The sacked trade minister's local Conservative association has been slow to rally around him
The battle for a northern soul
Gentrification has come to Amsterdam’s Noord borough. But not everyone is happy with the results
Dan Brown couldn’t have written a worse start, Liz
Liz Truss certainly had the shortest honeymoon period in British political history
Could Elon Musk sort out all the world’s problems?
Joe Biden’s roads to ruin
Far-right talk radio host Alex Jones and his listeners could spell danger for Joe Biden
What else could we call the Anti-Growth Coalition?
A few alternative terms for the ‘enemies of the people’, AKA everyone except Liz Truss…
Haunted, high and low: a-ha’s 40-year quest for respect
The Norwegian trio’s new album arrives with their legacy secure - but it hasn’t always been that way
Classical music is for life, not just funerals
The Queen's death may have silenced live music, but a new monarch gives hope of a bigger public platform
All hail The Empress: The German pretender to The Crown
A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress
Rugby league’s resistance man
After fighting the Nazis in the second
world war, Paul Barrière fought to save his outlawed sport
Ukraine’s scouse party: Eurovision’s Mersey mission
Liverpool has a long history with Eurovision, and not always a successful one
Theatre Review: The Boy With Two Hearts should be required viewing for Suella Braverman
The home secretary would benefit from seeing this story of a family fleeing their native Afghanistan
Theatre Review: Blues for an Alabama Sky is all style and no surprise
Pearl Cleage’s homage to the steamy plays of Tennessee Williams seems awfully contrived
Behind the curtain, a new dawn
As opposition to Putin grows inside
Russia, a timely photographic exhibition
revisits sites of protest against the old
Soviet Union
Lifting the veil on the intimacy of women
The stripped-down prose and raw honesty of Nobel prize for literature winner Annie Ernaux
The selfish genius with ego on his face
Kylian Mbappé is becoming such a prima donna that he risks destabilising the clubs that pay his fortune
Taste of Europe: Simon Shand’s brill with salsify
This recipe comes from the chef at the restaurant Leroy - a reason to visit Shoreditch
An ancestor of modern Basque
Before the Romans arrived in south-west France along with Latin, people there spoke what we now call Aquitanian
Sylvia Kristel: The star whose life was defined by transience
From the very beginning, Sylvia Kristel’s life thrummed with an undercurrent of impermanence
Multicultural Man: On Alcoholics Anonymous
A self-help organisation based firmly on the principle and practice of its members not being publicly identified by name has come to embody the exact opposite