A history of the world in circles
Radio 4’s In the Loop explores the secrets of things that are round – from particle accelerators to the 5,000-year-old…
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Subscriber of the Week: Ted McDonald-Toone
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Fifty days on an NHS ward
Over months of treatment, I have seen the best and the worst of healthcare in Britain.
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This England: The mane attraction
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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How to live forever
Oliver Zolman, doctor to millionaires, on the science of longevity.
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It is naive to think that Vladimir Putin’s fall is imminent
Failed coups often have few major consequences, and the Wagner Group’s mutiny may not alter the Ukraine war’s outcome.
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Mutiny of the mercenaries
Prigozhin’s putsch has cast doubt on the future of Russia’s war.
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The NHS: a history of political interference
The health service was opposed by doctors from the start, and has suffered decades of ministerial harm. Can Labour fix…
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Why adults should put their phones away
Also this week: nourishing our children and the social media con.
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The paralysis of power
Is this the beginning of the end of the Putin system – or will the autocrat endure?
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Worse could follow Putin
The focus for policymakers must be the prospect that Putin will be replaced by someone even more hostile to the…
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Labour promises a green energy revolution – but does it know how to make it happen?
We need to hear the party’s plan for a step-by-step withdrawal from oil and gas, and we need to hear…
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Jeremy Clarke was a supreme chronicler of the hand-to-mouth life
I lament the loss of my fellow down-at-heel columnist. We aren’t the kind that hang around for long.
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Trapped in the generation gap
Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.
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Emily St John Mandel’s Q&A: “I’m the person you want next to you in an emergency”
The Station Eleven author on Volodymyr Zelensky, mask-wearing and how to stay calm.
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From Elizabeth Winkler to Claire Kilroy: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Cinderella Boys by Leo McKinstry and In Light-Years There’s No Hurry by Marjolijn van Heemstra.
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The inventions of Norman Foster
From museums and airports to bridges and a pissoir, for 60 years the architect has left his stamp on the…
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Britain’s race delusion
Tomiwa Owolade argues that American culture wars obscure black British identity – but are racial borders less fixed than he…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
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The black dessert-maker who helped bring ice cream to the masses
More than 170 years after his death, Augustus Jackson is remembered as an American confectionery pioneer.
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