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It follows a car bomb attack on Dunmurry police station on Saturday. A high visibility policing operation is to be launched across Northern Ireland to counter the dissident republican threat,…
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The pitfalls of assisted dying
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Correcting our Grammar mistake
During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…
The rewilding Republican
Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…
Time for a class act
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Where hope takes root
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All that jazz
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Correcting our Grammar mistake
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Rent in two
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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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A calamity of lost youth
High numbers of deaths among young people are being ignored by the media and politicians
Flying the flag
The rise of Britain's new patriotism: loud, flag-obsessed and convinced the nation is falling apart
Falling short of the Four Freedoms
How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy
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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
CULTURE
“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”
Ruth Ivo
The acclaimed novelist discusses her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Helm, writing a "strange biography" of Britain's only named wind, climate collapse and "radical optimism," and why sorority is the key to consolidating power shifts and positive change
Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time
The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book
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Hungry Ghosts
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