Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”
The French literary celebrity on shame, autobiography and why his family abandoned the far right.
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Marianne Eloise: “People dismiss your illness if you’re not bleeding on the floor”
The writer’s memoir uses her life as someone diagnosed as autistic to fuel intense dives into pop culture.
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“The left has let conservatives hijack freedom of speech”
Ruth Smeeth, the former Labour MP and head of Index on Censorship, on the dangers posed to expression by the…
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Jodi Dean: “Identity tells us nothing about politics”
The political theorist Jodi Dean wants to revive “comradeship” and class struggle as an antidote to divisive arguments about race…
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“There was a god complex”: Adam Wagner on why Downing Street broke its own Covid rules
The No 10 parties have “all seemed egregious” to the barrister who spent two years tracking the UK’s pandemic legislation.
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Will Kate Forbes be Scotland’s next leader?
At 31, the SNP finance minister is tipped to succeed Nicola Sturgeon. But will her social conservatism and evangelical Christianity…
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Ben Okri: climate change and oppression are born of the same “devouring instincts”
The award-winning writer on philosophy, mythology and the connections between racial injustice and ecological crisis.
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Bobby Gillespie: “The drugs were an integral part of the persona”
The Primal Scream frontman on his working-class upbringing, his first acid trip, and feeling “God-like” in the Nineties.
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