21-27 March 2025

IN THIS ISSUE

9 Starmer’s wager

George Eaton on Labour clashes over welfare reform

20 False dawn Freddie Hayward on trouble in Trumpland

26 The end of the alliance? David Reynolds on whether Nato can survive

30 Self-sabotage

Rachel Cunliffe on what went wrong for Kemi Badenoch

36 Pop’s greatest love story Deborah Levy on Lennon and McCartney

42 Kazuo Ishiguro’s art of unease David Sexton on 20 years of Never Let Me Go

46 Paul Brady’s songs of conflict Kate Mossman meets Bob Dylan’s “secret hero”

Nato’s dark days: David Reynolds on the fate of the alliance

Never Let Me Go, 20 years on

Kate Mossman on Paul Brady

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