Why I’m no longer worried about family reading the sex scenes in my novel
I had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too…
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While many learned to bake or sew in lockdown, I have revelled in the beauty of isolation itself
Enforced isolation has brought less familiar pleasures, such as finally getting my bookshelves in order.
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Fearing for the future of the music business, I’m haunted by the ghosts of gigs past
Glastonbury’s cancellation comes as another blow upon the painful bruise being felt by the whole music industry. Yet the magnitude…
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On the steppe
Torn between China and Russia, and haunted by the ghosts of its communist past, Kazakhstan has taken an authoritarian turn.
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My New Statesman tote bag was a symbol of hope and belonging, and then it almost killed me
Ah, the irony! That I should be immolated by a bag advertising the very magazine that employs me!
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First Thoughts: The folly of the lockdown sceptics, and the Wilbys get vaccinated
Ipso is right to censure columnists who throw around half-truths and wilful exaggerations about Covid-19; the disease is too deadly.
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Commons Confidential: The workers divided
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Wesminster.
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The rise of the fact-checker in an age of disinformation
As president Donald Trump made more than 30,500 false or misleading claims; and the Washington Post tracked every one.
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