With a new portrait recently acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, Ken Currie, the Scottish painter talks mortality, death—and why he moved away from overtly political art.

✍️ David McAllister

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Chernobyl was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Today, investigators there are gathering evidence again—not about the explosion, but about potential, recent war crimes. Isabel Hilton reports.

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International law may be a polite legal fiction, but it can also be a rude fact of international affairs.

dag writes on Israel, Russia and the rules meant to govern states:

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It is still possible to advance positive visions for what the web could be, says Ethan Zuckerman.
So focus less on banning big tech—and more on building a replacement.

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Big news from the courtroom for our Displaced life columnist @JThomasfournier...

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Like the poll tax and the demise of Thatcher, the Rwanda scheme will have a big impact on the narrative as to why this government bit the dust, writes Andrew Adonis

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At a national level the Green party has made less progress than it should have, writes @samfr

So, how do they secure a breakthrough moment?

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“I’m in Paris now to sing the ultimate father-son-slaughter piece...”
Ian Bostridge’s schedule is currently taking him to some strange places:

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Today’s poverty crisis is doubly Dickensian, writes Tom Clark —appalling not just in the scale of penury but in the failure of the rich to do anything about it.

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The recycling of organic matter mimics nature and brings massive benefits.
I’m disappointed that my council is taking a step backwards, writes @farmer_tom_uk

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“A lifelong adherent of the Hindu-supremacist RSS” — N. Ram examines how Modi’s past continues to shape his fraught political record.

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What if anxiety is less a problem to be solved, and more an enduring truth of the human predicament?

Prospect’s philosopher-at-large, Sasha Mudd, writes:

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“I’ve learned so much from mistakes, I think I’ll make another.”
Marcus Chown reviews Harry Cliff’s SPACE ODDITIES, about the scientists operating at the weirdest, wrongest edges of their profession:
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Concert pianist Angela Hewitt says: 'Audience members often ask me what I think about when I’m playing. To quote the great Wanda Landowska, “The notes, dear, the notes!” If only it were that simple.'

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'For the Tories to recover, it won’t be enough for the planes to start taking off. Sunak needs clear evidence that deterrence is working, and far fewer boats are crossing the Channel,' writes Peter Kellner

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“There was scarcely any artist or whisky-guzzling writer in 1950s and 1960s London whose portrait he didn’t take.”

Even if you don’t know John Deakin by name, you’ve probably seen his work:

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Simon Kuznets isn’t exactly a household name—certainly when compared to, say, John Maynard Keynes.
But, on Branko Milanovic’s account, he was perhaps the greatest economist of the 20th century:
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Sex worker Tilly Lawless knows sex workers who enter the room with energy and chaos and a manic horniness. But she takes a different approach…
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Susan Hall, Conservative candidate for London mayor, hasn't been helped by a string of blunders during her campaign, writes Miles Ellingham

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