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By Why something extraordinary happened after the XR protester was pulled off the roof of the train
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By Office Ladies: an irresistible podcast for fans of The Office
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By After years of freezing in miniskirts, I realised the comfy, liberating pleasure of baggy clothes
Dressing like a librarian suddenly seems so right.
By How to deal with a dictator
Why demonising Putin is tempting but wrong.
By NS recommends: new books from Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, Ruth Kinna and Fatima Bhutto
Wigmore and Wilde’s Cricket 2.0, Kinna’s The Government of No One, and Bhutto’s New Kings of the World.
By Those who marched against Brexit will never forgive the Tories for inflicting such turmoil on the land
This was the silent majority finding its voice, the slow-to-anger rising up against the destruction of their values and…
By Elton John’s Me: a bracingly open and spectacularly funny autobiography
Dignity is thrillingly cast aside in this riotously entertaining book full of premium celebrity tittle-tattle.
By Edward Platt’s The Great Flood: a study of our drenched isle
Taking in everywhere from Fenland to the Lake District, Gloucestershire to Northumbria, The Great Flood shows that hardly any…
By Feeling severely distressed about the climate crisis? You’re suffering from solastalgia
“The pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides… is under immediate assault.”
By Why the internet doesn’t mean “the end of forgetting”
Kate Eichorn’s new book The End of Forgetting fails to grasp the extent to which we are already haunted by…
By First Thoughts: Political U-turns, fake news at the Daily Mail and why reading is bad for your health
Boris Johnson’s U-turn over a border with Ireland is of a comparable scale to that of Ted Heath in 1972.
By Donmar Warehouse’s [BLANK] skewers middle-class feminist benevolence
Plus: The Old Vic’s Lungs.
By Brett Anderson: “I deeply regret taking drugs. It wasted years of my life”
The Suede frontman on Brexit, the band’s rebirth and his self-critical memoir.
By Return of the populist: Matteo Salvini launches his political comeback
Salvini had carefully planned the gathering so that its tone was more moderate than extreme.
By Whistle-blowing drama Official Secrets: more like a transcript than a thriller
It would be a stretch to imagine a more pedestrian retelling of the 2003 Iraq War leak.
By BBC Radio 4’s The Secret History of GCHQ offers few insights into the organisation
Despite the title, there aren’t many secrets to be found here.
By Commons Confidential: Mac the Knife turns avuncular bank manager
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Channel 4’s The Accident is shocking, unpredictable, nuanced drama
Writer Jack Thorn adds intensifying extra layers to his plot that other, inferior writers might consider unnecessary.
By How “Botanising” can be done anywhere, even in the most unlikely places
I have botanised – the act of drifting along with the flow of the earth and its flora – in…
By It shook me up, interviewing Kevin Ayers. “I’ve felt like that my whole life,” his daughter tells me
I tell Galen that I found interviewing her father strangely upsetting and she says, “then we are the same.”
By Despite the Guildhall and the working stonemason, I can’t get anyone to come to Faversham
A Londoner is always going to look at small market towns with skewed and suspicious vision.
By Joanna Cherry’s Diary: The Queen’s Speech distraction, an indifferent prime minister and a Spice Girl moment
I make a point of not criticising the Queen herself but still enrage loyal Tories by referring to it…
By Premiership players are spoiled rotten. Until they retire and real life comes calling
From 35 onwards, for most of our stars, then and now, their purpose, position and pleasures in life are…
By Downing Street knows the best way to get the Brexit it wants is to ask the country a different question
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