NHS staff are still traumatised by the pandemic
Despite their continuing levels of severe distress, funding has now been withdrawn from mental health hubs.
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My life lived through football has not been in vain
Turns out I’ve been at quite a few major societal events.
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Subscriber of the week: Roger Cunningham
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Adriana Marais Q&A: “As a child, I imagined myself as an Egyptian queen or a Viking”
The theoretical physicist on meeting Nelson Mandela and living in China for six months.
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The confessions of Justin Welby
If the former archbishop of Canterbury hoped his self-abnegation on the BBC might salvage what was left of his reputation,…
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Trump’s third term is coming
When the US president promises something, we should believe him.
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What is school for?
The struggle for control of the national curriculum is a fight for the soul of English education.
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Picasso’s mistreated muses
It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…
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The murder that shocked the Edwardians
The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
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Listening through my father’s ears
The bond between me and my dad is too deep for words – but music comes close to expressing it.
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Sebastian is a refreshingly authentic exploration of sex work
This film by Mikko Mäkelä makes the likes of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Anora seem artificial.
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Pod save the Democrats
The Californian Governor Gavin Newsom wants to talk about the liberal left. Does he have anything to say?
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The special needs trap
What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.
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From Russell Shorto to Xiaolu Guo: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire by Juliet Rosenfeld and The Story of Witches: Folklore,…
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Letter of the week: Debasing the database
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Subscriber of the week: Kevin Hanson
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Tax doesn’t have to be boring
Dan Neidle’s Radio 4 show Untaxing reveals how our system is failing us – through the parable of Jaffa Cakes.
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Norman Lewis’s secret 20th century
In wartime Naples or Castro’s Cuba, the inconspicuous writer-traveller was a vivid chronicler of unseen worlds.
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I gave up on a work ethic at school and never looked back
I’ve been fighting the grind ever since I was first given homework.
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The Democrats’ toothless resistance
Liberals’ moral outrage only masks their allegiance to an amoral status quo.
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