6 Jun 2019 - 7:35am

What’s the point of political fiction? Novels rarely make laws – but they enlarge our political vocabulary

Sam Leith

05.06

The town that should shame our politicians Once proud Lowestoft has been abandoned to its fate

Paul Embery

04.06

Imagine if we’d lost D-Day History has not been entirely generous to the role of the British servicemen

Robert Tombs

04.06

What I learned about freedom in Xinjiang Cycling through China’s police-state province reveals an unsettling reality

Geordie Stewart

03.06

Why the Greens should stop playing God Realistic thinking about the state of the planet is almost extinct

John Gray

03.06

The rebirth of Liverpool How a dangerous, derelict city became worthy of capital status

Sam Jordison

02.06

When will Uber feel the techlash? Toothless regulators have propped up the platform long enough

Marshall Steinbaum

31.05

York was destined to be capital Re-empower the North with the first city of God's Own Country

Peter Franklin

29.05

Can Manchester unite the country? Plan bee: time to move the UK's capital to the home of radicalism

Jonn Elledge

29.05

The far-Right’s appeal to resentful Germans AfD voters are struggling to find jobs, fulfilment – and girlfriends

James Bloodworth

29.05

Why Britain needs a De Gaulle Great nations fall apart without great leaders

Peter Franklin

28.05

Who’ll blink first: Trump or Xi? Both sides are losing in the escalation of the US-China trade war

Helen Thompson