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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…
Passing as upper class
Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…
Long division
Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…
Where hope takes root
As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…
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Fight madness with more madness
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New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…
Roar deal
A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…
All that jazz
When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…
Unfree speech
Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…
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Democracy inaction
From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom
The nostalgia myth
The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future
Perspectives
Democracy inaction
From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom
PEOPLE
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Ben Delo
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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
Chuck Berry
The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll
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Gothic delights
Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan
Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
CULTURE
“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”
Francesca Beauman
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
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
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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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