A tale of two sisters and the eleven-plus
It was results day and the news was starting to sink in. I had passed my eleven-plus. My sister had…
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I don’t want to tick the box that says “Other. Please explain”
The government wants me to squeeze myself into a category, so it knows where I belong.
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My therapist couldn’t see how class shapes lives
I didn’t need to be analysed – I needed to be fed.
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Lessons from the wrong end of a fox hunt
One of the UK’s largest remaining predators, with a reputation for cruelty and cunning: the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt’s two…
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In Cumbria, gay men are outnumbered by sheep
But in the homophobic 1980s, this was no joke.
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I’m not asking if I can take a seat at the table. I am demanding you move
When I was just a snot-nosed kid, I failed my eleven-plus. And so, my life changed.
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“It was important to be positive”: Jeremy Deller on his New Statesman cover
The original artwork for Michael Sheen’s guest edit of the magazine, “A Dream of Britain”, references William Blake’s Albion Rose…
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Like many privileged migrants, I came here because of love
I feel I should be more ashamed of this government than people who grew up in Britain because I wasn’t…
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