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The Charles Dickens classic has been staged for the fifth time, and still speaks to modern audiences.

One day, great plays will be written about far-right groups, climate change and racism, but Manor is not one of them.

The new Commission for UK-EU Relations will propose solutions to problems caused by Britain’s botched exit.

As subsidies are cut and pigs are culled, it's unlikely farmers are part of the 18% who believe Brexit is going well.

Businesspeople, academics, journalists and a top trade unionist have formed a group with the purpose of repairing fractured UK-EU relations.

History is home to various Black Fridays. In 1910, one such day had nothing to do with bargains, and everything to do with cost.

In the wake of the tragedy in the Channel, media commentator LIZ GERARD’s searing essay exposes how newspapers demonised refugees - and encouraged ministers to follow them.

This Jane Austen parody is hard to critique... as the cast has clearly predicted every criticism they could receive.

Zadie Smith's modern, relocated take on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath is a bold reimagining.

Christmas is coming and people are wondering if the PM’s goose, instead of getting fat, may be getting cooked. What else could possibly go wrong?

Boris Johnson's blunders since Brexit makes for quite the list, does the public now have buyer's remorse?

WILL SELF on attending a speed awareness course for the second time.

The summit failed to offer any immediate hope to those on the front lines of climate change.

It may have been bumped from the front pages, but the prime minister is far from escaping the sleaze quagmire.

WILL SELF on the politics behind the nation's beloved baking show.

Tory knives are sharpening for a leader of the house who has lost all credibility.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL's weekly diary looks at how 'Global Britain' exists as just a slogan.

Your weekly check on how well Brexit is going (SPOILER: Not very well)

Dubbed "Mad Nad" by the Telegraph, her recent wrath at the BBC's Nick Robinson is one of many over the years.

There is no official recognition for the prime minister's wife, and Boris Johnson 'wants to fix that'.

Ahead of the COP26 conference, one reader has a suggestion for Boris Johnson's government to help Britain tackle climate change.

The UK used to consider itself above the political chicanery found on the Continent. It can’t afford to now.

Regardless of its merits, the cack-handed handling of the defence deal between the US, UK and Australia risks handing the initiative to China and Russia.

JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.

Editor-at-large ALASTAIR CAMPBELL offers an A to Z of his withering assessment of government performance this summer

In the third and final part of his exclusive series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains that there is no easy fix for anxiety, but there are plenty of ways to manage it

Post-lockdown audiences are treated to a fun-filled evening, courtesy of Jason Donovan and Alexandra Burke

Anything Goes with Robert Lindsay and Felicity Kendal makes for a 5-star theatre experience, despite the kooky plot

A tale of two Jurgens and the power of German coaching

Why Lord Digby Jones's claims that Alex Scott's commentary ruined the Olympics are ill-founded

Will Self on a Jewish ritual, and two new TV shows that perpetuate the religion's stereotypes

In the second of an exclusive three-part series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains how we can bring about major transformation in our lives not through willpower and grand gestures, but incremental measures