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Beg your pardon

DIARY

The guns of August • Are we on the brink of World War Three?

Bye-bye Bibi • Could Gadi Eisenkot topple Netanyahu?

All roads lead to Nashville

Closed books • Who are we without reading?

MICHIGAN NOTEBOOK

The death of liberalism

The GOP’s midterm weapons

Doom scrolling • Why does TikTok hype extreme violence?

Data blocking • The rebellion against AI — and the vast centers powering it — is growing

Intelligence trap • America’s lead over China in the AI race is fragile

At the Crease

Toy story • The robots are coming for make-believe

Jonestown revisited • Shiva Naipaul’s classic work about the 1978 massacre deserves its reissue

Blonde ambition • Marilyn Monroe is still as big a celebrity as ever, a century after her birth

Slice of the action • What ‘London-style’ pizzerias could learn from America

In vino veritas

New York life

Country life

Prejudices

‘The genuine progressive’ • Remembering Rod Liddle

London: A celebration

Party animal • Rod Liddle, the SDP supporter

Can I fucking swear yet?

Farewell, my brave and brilliant friend

State of the union • Gen Z has lost faith in marriage

Tax the poor

‘He’s the Messiah – or the Antichrist’ • On the Clacton campaign trail with Nigel Farage

AUTHOR’S NOTEBOOK

Spell bound • Is there really such a thing as a sporting curse?

An immense conundrum • How little I really knew my friend Mario Vargas Llosa

Nature’s freeloaders

Reflections on writing

Culture wars • Will UNESCO last another 80 years — and does it deserve to?

Complicated web

Sweet nothings

Joy ride

Plodding

No life

Still life

Fallen City • The remains of this Sierra Leone hotel symbolize Graham Greene’s ‘soupsweet land’

Sweat the small stuff, Mr. Burnham

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Plastic plants

Wood’s words