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The Weigh Up explores life after anorexia
This BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
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From Roald Dahl to Ian Fleming, censorship is good for the book trade
Releasing bowdlerised books into a predictable storm of ridicule and then making the “classic texts” available is clever business.
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Today’s global economy may look like that of the 1970s, but the crises we face are worse
Drawing parallels between recent price shocks and the fiscal turbulence of 50 years ago is misleading.
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Iain Dale’s Diary: An eerie Washington DC, Keir Starmer’s own goal, and the conundrum of Isabel Oakeshott
The Labour leader fumbled his justifications on LBC – but much of the outrage over Sue Gray’s appointment is confected.
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Letter of the week: Moving on from Blairism
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Why the prospect of Dorries’ stories worries Tories
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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This England: Black and white inking
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Mary Harrington: “Make sex consequential again”
The journalist and author on what liberal feminism gets wrong.
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The EU must accelerate its next enlargement
Admitting eight countries in eight years would be a daunting challenge for the European Union – but it would bring…
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The triumph of corporate newspeak
An unreal consensus grips our politics – and Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak offer only technocratic fixes for a Britain…
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Allelujah is Alan Bennett’s ode to the NHS
His 2018 play, set in a Yorkshire geriatric ward, is now a starry movie – with a pandemic-focused final act.
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Rishi Sunak is moving at speed – but can he outpace the spectre of Boris Johnson?
This spring’s prime ministerial activity has a frantic velocity we haven’t seen since the days of New Labour.
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The quiet consensus
Britain’s fundamental problems – dismal productivity, regional inequality, dilapidated infrastructure – long pre-date the EU referendum.
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Qin Gang: China’s new foreign minister and the taming of “wolf warrior” diplomacy
A former ambassador to the US, Qin Gang has a ferocious reputation. Who is he, and what does his rise…
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How the tabloids outed George Michael
A new Channel 4 doc explores the media’s glee at the singer’s arrest for “lewd acts” in 1998. But in…
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Britain’s broken tax system
How political expediency overrides logic and fairness in the UK’s chaotic finances.
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It was only when my husband was stranded on the motorway that I felt truly married
Forget the ring or the piece of paper, elation at the sound of your partner’s key in the door officialises…
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From Janet Malcolm to Sebastian Barry: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Deep Down by Imogen West-Knights and Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent.
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Sherine Tadros Q&A: “Since leaving TV I barely watch it”
The human rights activist on Arab socialism, comfort-watching Friends, and the allure of marine biology.
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