“Stop the boats” is a delusion
Rishi Sunak has only just realised what we always knew.
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Education’s inequality curse
Rishi Sunak has protected the status quo in schools and universities, as the gaps of privilege and geography grow ever…
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David Runciman’s armchair politics
In the recycled wisdom of his new book The Handover, the supremacy of the state is unquestioned and its inequities…
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Sharing Plate gives a taste of refugees’ histories
This podcast shares the foods and experiences of those who have fled conflicts to make their home in the UK.
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Why I loved my dog
Animals have so much to teach us.
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Dawn Butler’s Q&A: “Having cancer taught me how fragile life is”
The Labour MP for Brent Central on Sojourner Truth, fake culture wars and how she chooses which battles to fight.
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The noble art of procrastination
I expend more energy planning work than doing it, but the writing routines of literary titans, from Balzac to Patricia…
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The Price of Truth: meet the journalists taking on Putin
Watching this documentary while drinking tea at my desk, I feel admiration and something close to shame.
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The lyrical pastorals of the British neo-romantics
A new exhibition at the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden shows how the group painted the uncertainties of the mid-century…
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Colleen Hoover’s tales of love and trauma
Aided by an online fanbase, the author has sold over 20 million novels. What makes these formulaic books so marketable?
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A furry burglar leaves me cheeseless and reeling
The squirrel needn’t have stolen my last bit of Camembert. It had only to ask.
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From Helen Macdonald to Mary Jean Chan: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox and Chaos Kings by Scott Patterson.
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Scrapper is a sickly sweet father-daughter comedy
In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.
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Michael Parkinson – The last interview
The veteran talk-show host on broadcasting’s halcyon days, car-crash interviews and today’s “charlatans in high office”.
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Universities are making us stupid
A managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education.
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Anarchy unbound: the new scramble for Africa
Caught between climate change, migration and social upheaval, Niger and the Sahel are the crucible of Western failure.
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The NS Poem: Lifelong
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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Why the rich just keep getting richer
Also this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.
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Subscriber of the Week: Nick Papadopulos
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Letter of the week: The secondary sex
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