My nephew has changed how I feel about children
I still don’t want kids of my own, but aspects of motherhood that once seemed repellent to me now look…
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Why Barbie wasn’t snubbed
Also this week: Paul Giamatti’s struggling writers, and bad behaviour at the theatre.
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The rotten state
How corruption and chumocracy are pulling Britain apart.
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Can Zelensky survive the stalemate?
Once feted for his showmanship, Ukraine’s president has become plagued by corruption scandals and military failures.
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Ripping up the Iron Curtain
How a mass picnic party broke open Hungary’s Austrian border and foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Sheila Heti’s book of life
The Canadian novelist’s Alphabetical Diaries find a new way to capture the rhythms of human consciousness.
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We should all be like Oliver Twist and ask for more gruel
Science has enabled us to rediscover a food with near-magical health benefits.
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DJ Paulette Q&A: “Grace Jones still hula hoops through songs. She’s my hero”
The Manchester house music maestro on culture, crisps and coming home.
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Subscriber of the week: Geoff Wilson
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Most of football’s changes have improved the game – but not VAR
Let me count the ways in which football has reinvented itself since 1848…
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It’s bright January days when I feel most myself
Summer is an endurance test; Christmas is claustrophobia – but the start of the calendar is a wide open space.
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Confronting mortality on a 5A bus to the hereafter
After a visit to the Polyclinic, I now have to wait for my results. Scanxiety, I believe it’s called.
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Why NHS patients are resorting to weight-loss surgery overseas
A case involving gastric-sleeve surgery in Turkey revealed the UK’s failures in tackling obesity.
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The NS Poem: The Fall
A new poem by Ben Wilkinson
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Censorship does not work
Shielding audiences from the lies of Donald Trump and other difficult subjects is a betrayal of what journalism is for.
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Can Europe defend itself in a hostile world?
A Trump victory in November would expose the EU’s fatal gaps in defence spending.
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Revolution in the Wirral
Also this week: world-class music in schools, and making space for culture.
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This England: Hot debate
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Rwanda rabble-rousers claim asylum from their own rebellion
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Despair beyond repair
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