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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…

Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

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Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

War reporter

Cambridge In early September I attended the British Red Cross summer school in international humanitarian…

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FEATURES

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

CULTURE

Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Bee Wilson

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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LIFE

Free spirit

How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity

LIFE

LETTERS FROM ELSEWHERE

LETTERS FROM ELSEWHERE

MIND OVER MATTER

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