On a trip to Poland, I am reminded that my heyday has been and very much gone
A friendly man about a year older than me, turned and said: “You were an icon of the Nineties.” A…
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The ultra-processed food swindle
Engineered to trick our taste buds and appetites, artificially produced food is ruining our health and damaging our children. But…
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Frieda Hughes’s Q&A: “The Bible taught me everything”
The poet and painter on motorbikes, frog migration, and why all politicians are children.
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From Jacqueline Rose to Kira Yarmysh: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.
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Gods of Tennis took me back to when the players were rock stars
So much hair and testosterone, and yet, really, they were only little boys.
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The Jewish vaccine pioneer forgotten by history
Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how prejudice…
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We have a new album out and are determined that ageing won’t stop us seizing the day
Forwards we go, embracing the new. Although, I’m a bit worried my doctor is soon going to tell me I…
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The cult of David Keenan
How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde
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How to survive a nuclear holocaust
A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…
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Stephen William’s Chevalier is a wasted opportunity
This biopic of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier, the first black European composer, is less interested in the past than in converting…
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Elton John is saying goodbye, for one more time
He can no longer hit the high notes and stayed mostly seated at the piano but, even at the age…
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Subscriber of the week: Susan Houghton
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When Justin Welby met John Cleese
In BBC Radio 4’s Archbishop Interviews, the unlikely pair talk about faith, forgiveness, cancel culture – and whether Jesus is…
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The NS Poem: let the lilac in
A new poem by Michael Pedersen.
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If the Tories are the party for hard-working people, why are they so spectacularly lazy?
For the past 13 years, Britain has been run by people who fundamentally can’t be bothered.
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A life in books and why prizes matter
Also this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.
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A rising backlash against green policies is energising Europe’s far right
The spectacular blooming, then rapid wilting, of Germany’s Greens is a warning for progressives everywhere.
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Rural Oxfordshire proves a hostile environment for Boris and Carrie Johnson
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The health challenge
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How Succession made fools of us all
The brutal drama told us who the ultra-rich were again and again. We chose not to listen.
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