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The zoologist and TV star has died aged 98. Zoologist and TV presenter Desmond Morris has been remembered for his “lifetime of exploration, curiosity and creativity” after his death at…
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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…
Why Labour has to be conservative
Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country that hates the Conservative party. As our American cousins vulgarly say: “Do the math.” On 4 July 24 per cent…
Fight madness with more madness
Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…
Passing as upper class
Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…
Where hope takes root
As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…
Posh performance
I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…
Time’s arrow
“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…
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New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…
Question time
A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…
Falling better
The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…
Perspectives
Mumbo Jumbo
Political discourse has become a cauldron of curses, conspiracies and clickbait, where inflammatory rhetoric can manifest into deadly reality
Perspectives
Mumbo Jumbo
Political discourse has become a cauldron of curses, conspiracies and clickbait, where inflammatory rhetoric can manifest into deadly reality
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
Charles Spencer
The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out
Michael Palin
Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s
Earl Mountbatten
Re-evaluating the legacy of one of the last century’s most controversial leaders
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CULTURE
FEATURES
Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
CULTURE
“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”
Hanna Pylväinen
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder
The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book
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Gothic delights
Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan
POETRY
LIFE
Mid-life fever
A return to India prompts reflection on cycles of change in medicine and life
For better, for worse
June brings fewer wedding bells, but Scheherazade offers post-nuptial inspiration
LIFE
Hungry Ghosts
Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness
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MIND OVER MATTER
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