16-22 February 2024

IN THIS ISSUE

14 A Rochdale reckoning Andrew Marr on Labour’s by-election catastrophe

20 The Tory blame game Rachel Cunliffe on the Conservative civil war

24 Voice of the American right The Hillbilly Eleg y author JD Vance on Donald Trump

28 Age of disasters

Robert D Kaplan on the climate crisis and geopolitics

38 Women on porn Megan Nolan on how the internet transformed sex

48 Christian Dior’s war Rachel Cooke on fashion drama The New Look

55 In a cold climate John Burnside on Antarctic penguins under threat

Climate shocks: Robert D Kaplan on an age of global upheaval

JD Vance: Republican hope

At risk: the gentoo penguin

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