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What makes a witch?
A new BBC Sounds series explores the tangled roots and modern revival of witchcraft.
A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome
Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.
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Suella Braverman is branded a “loose cannon” by unhappy ministers in the Home Office
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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It’s been a dramatic season, but its high point is still to come: Carlisle vs Stockport at Wembley
Man City’s Ederson kicks off the long-awaited, much coveted 27th annual The Fan Awards…
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Ukraine reveals the rise of the non-aligned state
Zelensky left the G7 to a chorus of renewed Western support, but failed to convince the other leaders to choose…
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What Martin Amis taught me
The novelist had no reason to welcome me into his home – but generosity was the thread that connected his…
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This England: Threat of extinction
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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From Guy Gunaratne to the science of allergies: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring M John Harrison's Wish I Was Here and Jonathan Miles on the French Riviera.
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The Tory crack-up
Inside the dark new factions intent on taking over the Conservative Party.
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The scourge of greedflation
A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
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Ruth Wilson’s The Second Woman is a mesmerising feat of endurance
Over 24 hours, as Wilson played the same scene with 100 different actors, the repetition became addictive – and profound.
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Britain’s care deficit
By relegating the elderly and sick to the margins of life, we ignore the fact that one day we will…
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Some birthday… my shoulder is so bad I cannot pull a cork from a bottle
The pills might as well be Smarties, the gel salad cream. So booze it is.
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The patriotic preacher
Martin Luther King was no saint, but a deep faith in America drove his mission to redeem its soul.
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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland reveals the madness of sectarianism
James Bluemel’s documentary series may be the best television ever made about Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
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After two years of therapy I have decided that where I am is good enough
There have been few dramatic revelations; it has all been rather gentle.
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Shakespeare’s race problem
The playwright reflected the prejudices of his age, but he also questioned and undermined them.
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Keir Starmer: This is what I believe
Why we need a new mission-driven politics to renew Britain and defeat the enemies of progress.
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Ricardo Nuila’s Q&A: “I need to be nicer to my family”
The doctor and author on falling in love, The Simpsons, and the caring side of Sasanian King of Kings.
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