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Demonstrations will be held in Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Truro and London on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries. Protests will take place across the country…
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The pitfalls of assisted dying
One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…
An age without rival
It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…
Rent in two
In this class-themed issue I want to touch on an important social distinction in the…
Creative destruction
According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…
Where hope takes root
As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…
High society
In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…
Bonkers bunkers
In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…
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New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…
Long division
Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…
America’s third man
With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…
Hopeful histories
“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…
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The risk factor
New fiscal regulations don’t address the thin line between scams and foolish investments
The silent struggle
Disadvantages in education can be more nuanced than just race and gender
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
Martin Rees
Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"
Rory Stewart
The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics
The Duke of Windsor
How he actively engaged with Nazi Germany during World War II
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Gothic delights
Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan
CULTURE
“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”
Max Porter
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time
Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder
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The politics of colour
Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh
POETRY
LIFE
For better, for worse
June brings fewer wedding bells, but Scheherazade offers post-nuptial inspiration
LIFE
Free spirit
How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity
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