11-17 October 2024

IN THIS ISSUE

12 Kingmaker

George Eaton profiles chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

18 Under grey skies Andrew Marr on Labour’s fraught first 100 days

22 Westminster whodunnit Alison Phillips: who finished off Sue Gray?

24 Putin’s war machine Wolfgang Münchau on a reshaped Russian economy

32 Timothy Snyder’s liberty bell Lyndsey Stonebridge on competing visions of freedom

34 What Alan Hollinghurst sees Megan Nolan on his new novel Our Evenings

42 Rights of man Phil Tinline on the political afterlives of Fight Club

Who will blink first?: the West vs the Kremlin

The politics of freedom

Intimacies: Alan Hollinghurst

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