Maroon passport brooches and EU flags: how Remainers are getting radicalised
It’s a necklace that tells a story. In June last year, the cult jewellery company Tatty Devine released a…
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The Brexit wreckers
How Netflix’s algorithm can find exactly what I like – despite knowing nothing about me
Anxieties about online tracking tend to have a flattering element of the personal to spike the creeping fear of…
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Why video-assisted refereeing will take the fun – and angry meltdowns – out of football
Even by his own peerless standards in this area, the raging meltdown suffered in plain view by Neil Warnock…
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Joe Haines’s Diary: My ceiling TV, Robert Maxwell’s guns and how Harold Wilson would have handled Brexit
There’s a never-ending pleasure in seeing one’s work in print. When the excitement fades you have ceased to be…
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Leader: The plight of Britain’s working poor
The UK economy, by one metric at least, has never been in better health. Employment is at a record…
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First Thoughts: Military coups, hostage cover-ups – and irritating the Guardian editor
A hopelessly divided government incapable of governing. A parliament acting, as some see it, unconstitutionally. A very left-wing opposition…
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Why Ali Smith is the national novelist we need
On the evening of 27 March, two days before the UK was due to leave the EU, 100 or…
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The remorseless advance of Binyamin Netanyahu
Outside her clothes shop in Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market, Orin Philipson, a striking, black-haired woman in her fifties, expresses…
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Commons Confidential: Mark Francois, the Tories’ Uncle Albert
Tories are laughing at, not with, their party’s pugnacious weekend warrior Mark Francois. The volatile Brextremist and former Territorial…
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Akala: “I don’t enjoy explaining that black people are human beings”
In late 2017, the rapper and political thinker Akala was driving in London, on his way to a meeting,…
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How the UK can replace its broken economic model
The UK economy has experienced an almost unprecedented decade of stagnation since the 2008 financial crisis. The average worker…
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The Sisters Brothers is an unexpected take on the Western
The Sisters Brothers opens with a shoot-out on a rural ranch, filmed in pitch black. The only light comes…
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The forensic detail of Line of Duty
A country lane, a lorry loaded with drugs, a police escort: as the minutes ticked metronomically by, we knew…
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Nicole Flattery’s debut Show Them A Good Time is brutal, disorientating and bold
In the Irish writer Nicole Flattery’s disquieting debut collection of short stories, women are a problem whether they speak…
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The extreme optimism of Balinese radio
The peaks north of Beratan lake in Bali have different names depending on which village you approach from. There’s…
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Doll’s House
The doll’s house wants for windows and a proper paint job. Half the floors are carpeted and half bare…
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Saying goodbye to the slick, surreal and political music of Childish Gambino
If you bought a ticket to Childish Gambino’s tour you might have been surprised when he said it was…
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Roger McGough Q&A: “I might have been the first Liverpudlian pope“
The bestselling poet Roger McGough was born in 1937 in Litherland. He became known in the 1960s with the…
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How wearable tech will send the worried well running to their doctors
“I’m worried I have atrial fibrillation,” said Jonathan, a 35-year-old businessman who had just returned from a trip to…
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From my songs, people assumed I’m a sad, tortured soul. So I’m glad I started this column
It’s my five-year anniversary here. Five years of writing this column every two weeks. I still can’t quite believe…
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To take my mind off a visit from the Ex, I pour glass after glass of fizz for the Laird of the Manor
The last few days have all been very Bilbo Baggins’s eleventy-first birthday party up here. A huge marquee went…
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It’s worrying that people buy up to 15 pots of supermarket parsley – it’s so easy to grow at home
I find there is something embarrassingly intrusive about seeing other people’s shopping lists. It is like reading private diaries…
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Letter of the week: Beef with identity politics
I have not yet read White Fragility, but, according to K Biswas (The Critics, 29 March) the book seems…
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