John Waters Q&A: “The Resurrection’s going to happen. It’ll be crowded, but interesting…“
The filmmaker talks The Wizard of Oz, illegal voting, and Myra Hindley’s hairdo.
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How the rich got richer
Pochettino is in love with Harry Kane. Which footballer sets your loins afire?
This matter of homoerotic love between footballers is not a joke.
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At last, we seem to be awakening from the bad dream of “tick-box medicine”
Doctors allowed themselves to be reduced to automatons.
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Everything is going wrong, it seems – until I’m reminded that not quite everything is
It’s just the normal midlife cocktail of domestic worries, teenage children and ongoing health issues.
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I am homeless, but have struck up a friendship with some Scottish chickens
I wonder if they will let me stay in their coop for a bit.
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It is sad that we can no longer trust experts – but then, too many lie expertly
We have learned that a decade of higher study does not buy integrity.
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How do Cubans perceive Che Guevara today?
BBC World Service asks what the revolutionary leader’s family are up to.
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The Deuce reminds me of a novel – and has its share of jaunty clichés
Despite looking great on paper, David Simon’s new drama remains strangely uninvolving.
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“Looking for something real”: does Blade Runner 2049 do the original justice?
The 1982 film has survived seven iterations – and endless philosophical speculation.
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Through the looking glass: what the pre-Raphaelites took from Van Eyck
The most radical artists of the Victorian age fixed their gaze on 15th-century Netherlands.
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Daphne is so much more than a millennial romcom
Emily Beecham’s triumphant performance has notes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
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Dancing to the Music of Time: the intriguing and elusive Anthony Powell
In Hilary Spurling’s biography, as in his life, Powell is seldom centre stage.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that you can’t escape race when thinking about Trump
In We Were Eight Years in Power, the author reflects on the Obama administration that gave him his break.
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The many selves of Sylvia Plath: the poet’s early letters show a writer in training
Her mother was the eager audience who would always devour the tiniest detail of Plath’s life.
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Simon Schama’s Jewish history is immensely erudite – and compulsively readable
Belonging describes how even as Europe claimed to emancipate Jews, it persecuted them.
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The absolute boy and the melts: how Corbynism created a new political language
Inside the new left-wing world of Seven Nation Army chants, slugs, and centrist dads.
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Grenfell Tower: chronicle of a tragedy foretold
In the aftermath of a fire that symbolised the social divisions in one of the world’s richest cities, the…
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How the world’s greatest financial experiment enriched the rich
Western governments have printed trillions of dollars to boost their economies. While the asset-rich have reaped the benefits of…
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Ryanair comes down to earth: the hubris of Michael O’Leary
The notorious chief executive was forced to apologise for “a mess of our own making”.
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French lessons: what Corbyn can learn from Mitterrand’s mistakes
Socialists are wise to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
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“I had an image of the big bad wolf”: Ian McDiarmid on playing Enoch Powell
The Star Wars actor discusses his role in What Shadows, Chris Hannan’s new play.
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Commons Confidential: Boris Johnson is fighting on two fronts
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Iraq’s ancient splits widen: why the Kurds voted to secede
The referendum on 25 September was met with pockets of violence.
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The Ben Stokes saga: should sports stars really be held to a higher account?
The cricketer has been suspended by England after a street fight in Bristol.
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“I just made spaghetti!” Why brands are selling millennials a twee vision of “adulting”
Unfortunately, adulting won’t stop because true adulthood can’t start.
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A Yankee road trip through the British countryside with Peggy Seeger
Dear Diary: I woke up feeling 83. Not good, because I’m 82.
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After Las Vegas, who needs to fear Isis when you have the NRA?
Like cars and French fries, guns are everywhere in the United States.
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Rachel Johnson’s Diary: Moggmania and naked waiters
You’re never more than a few feet from a Johnson.
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Boris Johnson might not be the next Tory leader – but his faction is in the ascendant
Ruth Davidson is popular among the grassroots, but as she is not an MP she can’t stand.
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Las Vegas was a particularly American massacre
The US has a murder rate between three and five times higher than other developed countries.
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