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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…

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Long division

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I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

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Sonia Sodha

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Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

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A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

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The road to Hollywood is paved with anti-ageing procedures

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From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

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If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves

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Our society's cavalier attitude towards alcoholism

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Frances Coppola

Competing currencies won’t unlock the world from the shackles of US financial hegemony

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Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

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Sarah Hall

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Mary Beard

The classicist, Cambridge don and trustee of the British Museum discusses flamingo-brain feasts, gender surgery in antiquity and her new book Emperor of Rome

Naomi Alderman

The novelist, gamer and Bailey Women’s Prize winner discusses tech billionaires, apocalypse bunkers, her fans Obama and Gates, and her new book The Future

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

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