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Contents Free thinking since 1913
Broken politics: Anthony Seldon on the Brexit crisis 22 David Reynolds: Nato and the new world order 30
Up Front
3 Leader 10 Correspondence
Columns
7 Jason Cowley on Theresa May’s masochism premiership 9 Stephen Bush on parliament’s PM and Brexit dilemma 19 Kirsty Wark writes this week’s Diary 21 Helen Lewis on how comedians are struggling to find humour in Brexit 36 Ian Leslie on why politicians should leave Twitter
Observations
12 In the Picture 13 View From America: Nicky Woolf Why Robert Mueller was always a false saviour for US liberals 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: Jason Cowley Shamima Begum’s lawyer on his quest to bring the Isis bride home 17 Trends: Grace Blakeley The biggest warning sign of a new global recession 18 Newsmaker: Patrick Maguire Deputy PM David Lidington’s quiet rise to the top
Articles
22 Anthony Seldon on why Britain needs a new constitutional settlement 26 Martin Fletcher on the guilty men and women of the Brexit debacle 30 David Reynolds weighs up the challenges facing Nato on its 70th anniversary
The Critics: Books
38 Ray Monk on Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 41 The NS Poem “A Robot Invents the Orphic Puddle” by Tim Liardet 42 Lynsey Hanley on the utopian dreams of the 1960s planners who reimagined our cities 43 Hannah Rosefield finds that Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet takes a dark turn in Spring 44 K Biswas on White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo 46 Nigel Jones investigates the madness of King Henry VI 47 Hettie O’Brien explains what China’s control of the internet means for the West
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