Education’s inequality curse
Rishi Sunak has protected the status quo in schools and universities, as the gaps of privilege and geography grow…
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Inside Britain’s Exclusive Sect
Letter of the week: The debt paradox
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What the Lionesses taught us
How fitting, how healing, if it had been women who ended English football’s 57 years of hurt.
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The case for student salaries
Also this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.
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Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left
The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
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“Stop the boats” is a delusion
Rishi Sunak has only just realised what we always knew.
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The plans for a national Holocaust memorial need a rethink
The building’s design has been criticised and tangled in controversy – issues that such a project can well do…
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Why I loved my dog
Animals have so much to teach us.
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Why we’ll never understand Lucy Letby
The nurse’s motive will remain unknown, but there are irrefutable systemic failures which can be addressed.
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Escaping Eden
For those who leave the Exclusive Brethren sect, separation comes at great personal cost.
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Casualties of the counteroffensive
In the summer’s vicious fight for territory, Ukraine is suffering heavy losses. But wounded soldiers are determined to return…
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David Runciman’s armchair politics
In the recycled wisdom of his new book The Handover, the supremacy of the state is unquestioned and its…
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From Helen Macdonald to Mary Jean Chan: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox and Chaos Kings by Scott Patterson.
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Colleen Hoover’s tales of love and trauma
Aided by an online fanbase, the author has sold over 20 million novels. What makes these formulaic books so…
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Cormac McCarthy’s art of war
In Blood Meridian the author reaches the dark heart of the American novel – where violence is timeless.
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At Gunnersbury Park, Boygenius’s eerie, melancholic songs became festival singalongs
At a 25,000 strong gig, the band’s delicate melodies, close harmonies and elaborate guitar riffs were performed with ease,…
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The lyrical pastorals of the British neo-romantics
A new exhibition at the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden shows how the group painted the uncertainties of the…
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Scrapper is a sickly sweet father-daughter comedy
In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.
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The Price of Truth: meet the journalists taking on Putin
Watching this documentary while drinking tea at my desk, I feel admiration and something close to shame.
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Sharing Plate gives a taste of refugees’ histories
This podcast shares the foods and experiences of those who have fled conflicts to make their home in the…
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The noble art of procrastination
I expend more energy planning work than doing it, but the writing routines of literary titans, from Balzac to…
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A furry burglar leaves me cheeseless and reeling
The squirrel needn’t have stolen my last bit of Camembert. It had only to ask.
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This England: Fish first
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Dawn Butler’s Q&A: “Having cancer taught me how fragile life is”
The Labour MP for Brent Central on Sojourner Truth, fake culture wars and how she chooses which battles to…
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