Kids as young as five are snapping pictures of their parents for Instagram, but should we be worried?
As a general rule, children are not allowed to stand on their parents’ beds. But for eight-year-old Elsie, this…
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Brexit has created a constitutional impasse – partly because our MPs are ignorant of history
The United Kingdom is in a constitutional impasse. The government cannot command a majority in parliament to separate from…
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Letter of the week: Lessons from Ireland
David Robson’s letter, on how long he has read the New Statesman, reminded me that it is 70 years…
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I wasn’t shocked to see spitting in the Women’s World Cup – but I was when the BBC blurred it out
Setting whole new standards for the protection of sensitive viewers, the BBC’s production team at the Women’s World Cup…
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Leader: Boris Johnson’s privilege and irresponsibility
On 23 July, in the absence of a surprise upset, the Conservative Party will elect the 20th Old Etonian…
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Boris Johnson sees himself as Churchill but he’s closer to the Athenian chancer Alcibiades
Boris Johnson believes himself to be a reincarnation of Winston Churchill. In fact he much more closely resembles a…
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Andrew Marr’s Diary: Boris Johnson’s mistake, a Shakespearean climate crisis and easing up on the whisky
The Tory leadership contest is being built around an illusion: that whoever is chosen, Hunt or Johnson, will be…
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Extinction Rebellion goes mainstream: what’s next for the climate activists?
In April, Farhana Yamin, a 53-year-old lawyer, charged through a police cordon and super-glued her hands to the ground…
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A veteran’s last hurrah: in praise of Sri Lankan slinger Lasith Malinga
There are quite a few cricket fans – I’m one of them – who don’t take too much notice…
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Commons Confidential: Johnson’s ex unburdened
Marina Wheeler is, perhaps, more than anyone else, including screaming lover Carrie Symonds and repulsed cabinet ministers, in a…
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The drumbeat for war with Iran grows louder despite Trump’s caution
Donald Trump is many things but he is not, it must be acknowledged, the knee-jerk warmonger that many feared…
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Facial recognition technology may be coming to porn – and these men can’t wait
Michael, a 30-year-old New Yorker, messages me via the chat forum website Reddit to explain how a new technology…
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What You Have Heard Is True: Carolyn Forché’s courageous memoir
In Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of the brutality she and her husband the poet Osip Mandelstam endured in Stalin’s Russia,…
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a warm, engaging therapy memoir
Lori Gottlieb is a woman of many talents. She has been, at various points in her life, a journalist,…
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BBC Radio 4’s adaptation of Derek Jarman’s journals remind us of the director’s unique mind
Twenty five years since Derek Jarman’s death, I often find myself looking hopefully for traces of him in new…
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Sameer Rahim’s Asghar and Zahra: a sparkling comedy of Muslim manners
Reading Asghar and Zahra, Sameer Rahim’s sparkling debut novel about a young British Muslim couple’s seemingly mismatched marriage, is…
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Somerset’s cricketing greats
In the spring of 1974 four young men arrived in Taunton, at the dingy (though charming) HQ of Somerset…
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Why literary writing should celebrate working-class culture
There’s a haunting story by Leon Garfield about a clerk who sells seven years of his own life to…
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Richard Curtis’s Beatles rom-com Yesterday is a wasted opportunity
Imagine there’s no Beatles. It’s easy if you try. That’s the conceit behind Yesterday, which brings together two other…
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Kevin Barry Q&A: “I’m often very happy. I’m almost gurgling with the joys“
Kevin Barry was born in 1969 in Limerick. He is the author of three novels and two story collections…
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Vaping may be less harmful than smoking, but what are the long-term health risks?
I advise patients on a daily basis that one of the best things they can do for their health…
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Years and Years showed Black Mirror how to really do dread-filled dystopia
The list of TV that I can’t bear to watch (and it’s a short one) stands at: the finger-vice…
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I like driving – but only for about 20 minutes. And when the car is actually moving
Would I, I am asked by his mother, like to drive the youngest back from university. That would be…
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Why woods are as important to history as any king, battle or law
I grew up with the old-school approach to history, doggedly memorising long lists of kings and queens, fateful battles…
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