The subconscious reason why football fans are turning off their TVs
Where are our English stars of today, household names even in non-football households, whom you want to bother seeing on…
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The closing of the liberal mind
In Mosul, there are more fearful war correspondents than I’ve ever seen before
“Isis are not just willing to die,” says one of my colleagues who survives four suicide vehicle attacks. “They want to…
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The latest ailment, the male menopause, should give us pause for thought
At first, the rise of testosterone prescriptions might appear puzzling. But dig beneath the surface, and a different picture…
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I’ve found the new Richard Linklater – and she’s a DJ in the Scottish Highlands
Carol’s reading of the community notices reaches almost Shipping Forecast levels of non-partisanship.
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Fancy dress season is here, and the ghost of cultural appropriation rattles its chains
No one ever changed the world by boycotting, or even burning down, a fancy-dress shop or Tex-Mex restaurant, and…
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Whatever happens with Article 50, Britain will always have a friend in France
This week, I reflect on a shared history, a cross-Channel rivalry and what it means to visit Victor Hugo.
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How Momentum entered the crisis zone
Momentum was the engine of Jeremy Corbyn’s victory. Now a civil war is tearing it apart.
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Unnerving prescience aside, is Black Mirror really as smart as it seems?
I get all the references and recognise the cleverness of its tricksy plots – but Charlie Brooker’s new series is…
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What does Hillary Clinton need most right now? To get a dog
The week in the media, including paying for a Scottish passport, the Orgreave conspiracy, and what a hound could…
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“Erotic dreams about a man half my age“: Sarah Ladipo Manyika reveals the value of pleasure
Manyika’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun makes a valuable case for finding delight in…
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At Battersea Cats’ Home, a kitten gets me thinking about family
It takes a kitten to set me musing on my father’s mildly bonkers habits and the quirks of heritability.
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With my visor down against the night, I unhooked my safety tether
Not realising the cause of my near-blindness, I thought that I was simply beginning to die.
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Don’t demonise the rabble: why everything you think about crowds is wrong
We are programmed to fear crowds, but a new style of policing shows that we shouldn’t be so worried.
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Nazis on drugs: how the kick of crystal meth powered the Blitzkrieg
From doping at the 1936 Olympic Games to giving soldiers methamphetamine, two new books reveal the drugs that fuelled…
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Murder, mobs, and public shaming: are we predisposed to fight each other?
A new book by James Sharpe investigates of our deep-rooted addiction to brutality.
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Leader: Donald Trump is unfit to lead
Beyond his own vanity, there is no sense of why Mr Trump even wants to be president.
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Nocturnal Animals is meant to be confusing – whether that will console audiences is another question
What at first resembles a thriller becomes more about the complicated way art emerges. But does its film-within-a-film puzzle…
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Trump v Clinton is depressing – but America could yet follow Corbyn’s example
A coming together of people from protest movements and party politics, combined with communication outside the mainstream media, could…
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If Burgundy confuses you, don’t worry – you’re not alone
Wines from this great region often confound even the experts. But there is a solution.
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Beauty and the freak: inside the awful, wonderful world of Diane Arbus
From photographing “freaks” to weekend affairs, a biography of Arbus brings a new dimension to her stunning photographic legacy.
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Beyond Reading Gaol: The fight for LGBT equality is not over
In the UK, we are lucky enough to be able to visit Oscar Wilde’s prison cell and view it…
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Caught at a crossroads: it’s time to build an alternative to neoliberalism
After four decades, the economic consensus is crumbling. What can politicians do next?
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Commons Confidential: Trouble in the doghouse
Animal-loving MPs are being discouraged from bringing their pet pooches to work.
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Can the Republican Party recover from Donald Trump?
A journey to the heart of Trumpland reveals what the GOP might do next.
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Paul Beatty: “I invented a Richter scale for racism”
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout on satire, offence and why Donald Trump is “like a dick…
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