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From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song

The UK was at the forefront of developing nuclear energy. How then did it fall so far behind France? And is it ripe for a comeback?

Your favourites unite for Brexit Avengers: Infinite Culture Wars! Coming soon, whether you like it or not...

Now the rest of Britain will ask, ‘if it’s so great, why aren't we in it too?’

The ex-‘Brexit hard man’ hopes his mental struggles are now over, yet millions continue to suffer because of policies he espoused

Marie Antoinette was probably deeply upset by her fate. The environment secretary, however, appears unbothered by the current state of affairs

If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama

This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks

Keir Starmer’s target is laudable, but it requires a political sea change

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The EU is watching what comes next with hope… and some scepticism

The prime minister has got his agreement with the EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol – but will it be enough to stop a rebellion?

The race to remove European laws from the British statute book is happening for the worst of reasons

The former prime minister shows he is only interested in himself, not Northern Ireland

Pulling Britain out of the ECHR to appease his party’s hardliners would be a disaster

Beware, Rishi Sunak – the former PM will stop at nothing to get his old job back...

Nicola Sturgeon’s departure continues a pattern of leaders finding themselves broken by politics’ hostile environment for women

The British trio are back with more of their despairing, sinister sounds on new album The Fell

Star Trek actor George Takei still finds much about British politics highly illogical

This musical set on an estate in Sheffield charts the changing times of these islands

Sylvia fails to live up to its billing as the serious rival to Hamilton it was originally intended to be

The tendency in the collective British psyche towards uchronia – a time that never was – rather than utopia, should gladden the King’s heart, since his entire raison d’être is the preservation of crumbling institutions

The names of our cities, towns and villages are part of the linguistic heritage of Britain – but some have a complicated history

A food industry expert warns that parts of the food chain may collapse when Brexit checks come in later this year

The short-lived PM’s new big idea sounds suspiciously familiar…

Supermarkets left with empty shelves as Morocco restricts its exports to the UK

Our economy is suffering the same problems of low growth and poor productivity experienced by our Italian neighbour

I am #StateSchoolProud. Hopefully, Groucho would approve, as would those who are genuinely committed to "levelling up"

Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Tories – what could possibly go wrong?

Boris Johnson's latest intervention in the Northern Ireland Protocol is outrageous - even by his own standards