John Barnes: “Boris Johnson doesn’t know he’s racist”
The former England star discusses his new book The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Defining oneself by an identity is an impoverishment of what you are”
The French intellectual on culture wars and global crises.
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Amanda Staveley: the football financier who brought Newcastle to the Saudis
From restaurateur to diplomat-capitalist, who is the deal broker behind the £300m Saudi-Newcastle takeover?
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Birds aren’t real and this man wants the world to know
The Birds Aren’t Real movement is a combination of post-truth satire and Gen-Z s**tposting. But is Peter McIndoe on the…
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“Ministers just went blindly ahead”: The woman trying to stop a mass cull of Britain’s pigs
Zoe Davies, chief executive of the National Pig Association, on how Brexit has pushed her industry to the brink of…
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“Society is ableist”: Alice Hattrick on gender, chronic illness and long Covid
The author talks about their new book Ill Feelings, and why women are too frequently dismissed by doctors.
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“We have a responsibility to dirty our hands”: Julie Laernoes on the French Green party
The vice president of Nantes on why she believes the Greens’ Yannick Jadot is the right candidate to bring France…
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“It is truly bonkers”: Greg Jackson, Octopus CEO, on the UK’s broken energy system
Britain’s failure to invest in renewables led us into the gas crisis, says Jackson, and a revolution in energy supply…
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