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New protest laws would be extreme

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Sonia Sodha

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Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

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Passing as upper class

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The new nomadism

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The carefree socialites of the 1920s can teach us how to let our hair down

My generation’s missing out on the naughties

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Nick Hunt

The human-caused devastation of the Aral Sea landscape has given birth to the strangest myths

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Lucy Moore

The carefree socialites of the 1920s can teach us how to let our hair down

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How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

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Lily Webb

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Claudia Cockerell

The water companies have drained the coffers as well as the rivers

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Naomi Alderman

The novelist, gamer and Bailey Women’s Prize winner discusses tech billionaires, apocalypse bunkers, her fans Obama and Gates, and her new book The Future

Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

Mary Beard

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Helen Brown

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Sarah Hall

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Ruth Ivo

The former burlesque dancer discusses her fictionalised memoir of Soho life in Performance, the exhilarating freedom of club nights in her youth and “hatching” from an egg on stage