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Richard Rankin’s portrayal of the hard-bitten Edinburgh detective first aired in spring last year. The BBC’s adaptation of Sir Ian Rankin’s best-selling Rebus novels is being renewed for another series,…
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The road to recovery
First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three times in history that a Labour government has been elected on a sweeping majority, crushing the Conservative incumbents. What Keir Starmer…
New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…
Roar deal
A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…
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Where hope takes root
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Falling better
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You’re on camera
There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…
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Time’s arrow
“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…
History’s false promises
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The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan
Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten
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A side dish of bugs, please
Taras travels to Mexico in search of sustainable food for the future
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Sathnam Sanghera
The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society
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The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics
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Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh
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Francesca Beauman
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
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Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
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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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Hungry Ghosts
Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness
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