Why I wept at spring’s arrival
Winter is about stasis, but spring brings change and progress – and dear God, never have we all needed…
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Winter is about stasis, but spring brings change and progress – and dear God, never have we all needed…
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Evolution has always been indifferent to the myth of inevitable human progress. Now, in the age of Covid-19, it…
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The creativity and technological development seen by many as essential to economic growth come with hidden costs to society.
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Despite his immense success as an illustrator of children’s classics, the artist longed for respect as a painter.
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Although it covers important and sensitive issues, Chloe Combi’s “You Don’t Know Me” can feel exploitative in its approach.
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Though I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory,…
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Set in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
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From their plush “Digital Concert Hall” you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
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This detailed, academic book argues flawed leadership led to military disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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By focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar…
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Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling…
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The Nobel winner’s cryptic new novel is the result of a decades-long rejection of “well-formed” fiction.
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The Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
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A new poem by Tamsin Hopkins.
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After Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Private trauma has been overshadowed by the public health emergency, leading many to feel their individual troubles count for less.
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After 36 years of working in the NHS, the surgeon warns that his colleagues on Covid-19 wards need more support.
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A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Keir Starmer’s party seems to have lost confidence in what it is, what it wants and for whom it…
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Sadly, I realised that these unintended sanctuaries were temporary and would soon fall to the developers.
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As we battle with lockdown fatigue, I remember that those who live with disability or chronic illness always operate within such…
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The founder of Starling Bank discusses classroom rivalry, robots of the future and the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
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After me only two people have ever been inside my home, largely because it is rarely in a fit…
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The disastrous move is as close to snatching food from the mouths of babes as politics ever gets.
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Social media entices public figures with its promises of stardom – but there too lies its danger.
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We will soon see the UK is better out of the EU than in it.
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With no pubs or restaurants, it’s as if we’ve returned to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, where awkward young farmhands called on…
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Researchers have discovered that heavy use of social media, for adolescent girls, is correlated more strongly with anxiety and…
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I had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too…
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The Chancellor’s hope is that the country may now have an appetite to reduce debt, leaving Labour in a potentially disastrous…
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The founder of Starling Bank discusses classroom rivalry, robots of the future and the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
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As we battle with lockdown fatigue, I remember that those who live with disability or chronic illness always operate within such…
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After me only two people have ever been inside my home, largely because it is rarely in a fit…
By
Sadly, I realised that these unintended sanctuaries were temporary and would soon fall to the developers.
By
Although it covers important and sensitive issues, Chloe Combi’s “You Don’t Know Me” can feel exploitative in its approach.
By
Though I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory,…
By
Set in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
By
After Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.
By
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By
From their plush “Digital Concert Hall” you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
By
Private trauma has been overshadowed by the public health emergency, leading many to feel their individual troubles count for less.
By
I had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too…
By
Social media entices public figures with its promises of stardom – but there too lies its danger.
By
Researchers have discovered that heavy use of social media, for adolescent girls, is correlated more strongly with anxiety and…
By
We will soon see the UK is better out of the EU than in it.
By
The Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
By
The disastrous move is as close to snatching food from the mouths of babes as politics ever gets.
By
With no pubs or restaurants, it’s as if we’ve returned to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, where awkward young farmhands called on…
By
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By
A new poem by Tamsin Hopkins.
By
The Chancellor’s hope is that the country may now have an appetite to reduce debt, leaving Labour in a potentially disastrous…
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Keir Starmer’s party seems to have lost confidence in what it is, what it wants and for whom it…
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After 36 years of working in the NHS, the surgeon warns that his colleagues on Covid-19 wards need more support.
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