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In the literary snake pit, writers and critics tend to either suck up to one another frantically, or bite down hard so as to inject their venom yet deeper

We won't beg. It's time for the government to acknowledge women's due - and pay it

This musical is a joyous explosion of colour, light and good humour

There’s almost certainly a great play to be written about gay black and mixed-race men but this sadly isn’t it

The Conservatives are clutching at straws. Do they think we haven't noticed?

Both left office in disgrace and dishonour. Yet they still believe a resignation honours list is their right

Can the UK really keep up with the subsidies being offered by America and the EU?

The latest gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Google is dragged into a debate over political bias after its new chatbot says Britain should have stayed in the EU

Living standards will not return to pre-pandemic levels for another five to six years, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said

A bizarre encounter around a recently deceased patient made one doctor question how we define when death occurs

How can nations speak to one another? One British diplomat found the answer

The PM’s use of a blind trust is saving him a fortune - but it sent a terrible message to Britain

The damage Johnson has inflicted on the country is deep and it will be lasting

We labelled her an ‘enemy alien’ but the Austrian-born studio potter’s work helped reinvent a drab postwar Britain

When Suella Braverman said Britain was being ‘invaded’, she was right – but not in the way she meant. It’s been happening for centuries

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman believe in a hard line on migrants. A better way is possible

He denied everything – but will anyone believe him?

The rump UKIP's bid to unite the hard-right vote is falling on deaf ears at Richard Tice's party

He succeeds Lord Andrew Adonis in the role

For discredited populists, it has been the week justice hit back

When one person draws a line, the strength of resistance is tested

Jeremy Hunt’s budget shows that leaving the EU is only paying off in a parallel universe

As with everything else, there is one rule for them, and another for everyone else

It’s nothing short of terrifying that Tom Basden has managed to shift a story of Italian police corruption so effortlessly and convincingly to a metropolitan police station in this country

A triumphant production about life, love, growing old and dying has absolutely restored my faith in theatre

The latest gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Credit Suisse had been doing business for 167 years – how did it vanish so quickly? And, are we heading for a 2008-style meltdown?

From what we know of the current Conservative party, they might just do it

A pensions saving giveaway for the super-rich shows the government’s warped priorities

The country’s manufacturers have given up on the Conservatives and are waiting for the election that removes them