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Contents Free thinking since 1913
Sturgeon rolls the dice: will Brexit break up Britain? 22 War on Isis: Quentin Sommerville reports from Iraq 34
Up Front
3 Leader 10 Correspondence
Columns
7 Peter Wilby on kinky boots, Oxford colleges and starring in fake news 9 Mehdi Hasan asks: what are the chances of impeaching Donald Trump? 21 Julie Burchill writes this week’s Diary 38 Helen Lewis finds the latest X-Men film strangely moving
Observations
12 In the Picture 13 View from Cavriago: Max Paradiso The decline of Italy’s centre left 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: Barbara Speed The writer Andrew Solomon on identity, family and belonging 17 Ideas: Yo Zushi Can celebrities remain the stuff of dreams in the age of social media? 19 Newsmaker: Xan Rice How Eddie Jones, the England rugby coach, triumphed against the prevailing wisdom
Articles
22 David Torrance says the next referendum is the SNP’s to lose 25 Douglas Alexander on whether the Union can be saved 27 George Eaton on Theresa May’s negotiating strategy 28 Emma Jacobs on the future of the gig economy 34 Quentin Sommerville reports from the front line in Mosul
The Critics: Books
40 Andrew Marr finds a prescient guide to Britain’s new tribal divisions in The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart 42 Melissa Benn on feminist manifestos by Jessa Crispin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Catherine Mayer and Jess Phillips 44 The NS Poem “The News Reported She Wore Her Body to the Event” by Amy Key 45 Peter Wilby on Adrian Addison’s expletive-strewn history of the Daily Mail
“Logan uses the devastating special effect we all get for free – time” Helen Lewis, page 38
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