Invisible Women

Zoe Strimpel questions some of the dominant gender narratives around the Me Too movement.

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Absence of Exultation

Adam Gopnik ponders New Yorkers' response to the passing of the pandemic there.

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On Concrete

Rebecca Stott on why we need to rethink our love affair with concrete.

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Eavesdropping

Will Self muses on the joys of eavesdropping.

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The Past is Never Dead

Sara Wheeler rereads fifty years of diaries and ponders lessons learned.

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The Arts in Our Hearts

Bernardine Evaristo on why the country's arts must be cherished.

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Anti-Zionism and the Death of Tragedy

Howard Jacobson on Zionism and the disappointment of a dream.

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The Culture War

Zoe Strimpel argues that the culture war is not a storm in a teacup.

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The Boring Twenties

Niall Ferguson argues that predictions of a 'Roaring Twenties' may be misplaced.

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Red Tape

Tom Shakespeare on our relationship with red tape, past and present.

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Verrucas Optional

Sara Wheeler on why she has little time for the current fad of wild swimming.

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Trolls Running Riot

Bernardine Evaristo argues that online trolls are poisoning human interaction.

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In the Dingle Peninsula

John Connell walks in the footsteps of the Irish monk, St Brendan.

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Rapping with a W

Howard Jacobson reflects on present wrapping

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A Study in Improbability

Adam Gopnik presents an extended anecdote about art, television and memory.

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The Rhetoric of the Climate Crisis

Rebecca Stott reflects on the difficulty of communicating climate change.

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The Creep of the On-Screen Narrative

Zoe Strimpel argues that it's time to wean ourselves off TV as a coping mechanism.

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The Secret Life of Food

Sara Wheeler explores the emotional power of food.

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The Limits of Reason

John Gray reflects on doubt, faith and love... through the life of Arthur Balfour.

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Little Amal

Michael Morpurgo tells the story of one child refugee, heading our way.

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Suffer the Children

Rebecca Stott asks if it's time to admit that some faith groups are not safe for children.

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In Praise of Mathematics

Zia Haider Rahman on why he's introducing his 5-year-old godson to mathematics.

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Talking about Integration

David Goodhart ponders why we're reluctant to talk about integration.

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Not in My Movie

Sara Wheeler on why it's vital that research into neurodiversity is better understood.

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Two Small Scandals

Adam Gopnik poses the question: Do you have a right to make my life into your art?

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Car Hatred

Will Self on motor-mania.

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The Eve of Destruction

Sarah Dunant reflects on political will and its relationship to changing behaviour.

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The Child Question

Zoe Strimpel on the binary choice of motherhood.

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Annoying

AL Kennedy on why everything these days is... annoying.

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More Questions Than Answers

Tom Shakespeare on University Challenge and a starter for ten.

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But Does it Matterhorn?

Sara Wheeler reflects on why place names matter.

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

Sarah Dunant discusses living on a cusp of history.

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A Sense of Home

Will Self on our fetishisation of property.

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The Sea at Christmas

Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.

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On lost souls... and mobile phones

Adam Gopnik on the quest for lost souls.

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On Rapid Home Delivery

Zoe Strimpel reflects on the impact of rapid home delivery on the way we live our lives.

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Etonian Lives Matter... but not as much as they used to.

David Goodhart rejects what he calls the 'Eton conspiracy myth'.

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The Right Side of History

Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present - or future.

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Leaving the Ivory Tower

As she leaves academia, Rebecca Stott says an audit culture is stifling universities.

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Misopedia

Will Self deplores the British attitude to children, mixing sentimentality with cruelty

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Selective Vision

Sara Wheeler reflects on the harm done by seeing only from our own point of view.

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An Ecological Reparation

John Connell on planting trees on his family farm as reparation for years of flying.

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It's Not Their War

Sara Wheeler says that the attack on Ukraine is not the war of Russians she has known.

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Return of the Bomb

Will Self argues that the threat of a nuclear apocalypse has never really gone away.

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There Are No Words

Rebecca Stott on conversations with her Russian friend.

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Every Picture Tells a Story

Sarah Dunant on the power of images in war.

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Tolstoy in Our Time

Adam Gopnik seeks enlightenment for our time in Tolstoy's War and Peace.

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Helpless

A L Kennedy reflects on a 1950s experiment in inducing despair.

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A View From Russia: All I Have To Say

The everyday repression of life in Russia, as seen by an anonymous dissident playwright.

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What is a Woman?

Zoe Strimpel asks the simple-yet-complex question, 'what is a woman?'

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The Unlistened-to Story

Howard Jacobson on why stories of truth in war cannot be ignored.

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Reconsidering Cannabis and the Law

Will Self proposes a very British solution to the legalisation of marijuana.

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Basic Instincts in the House of Commons

Sarah Dunant takes the temperature of sexual equality in politics.

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The War with Words

Bernardine Evaristo on news that Girl, Woman, Other may be banned in some US schools.

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Home from Home

Michael Morpurgo calls for a rethink on how we deal with refugees.

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On Rubble

Rebecca Stott imagines a day when Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities can be rebuilt.

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Jubilee Musings

Observations on the Jubilee weekend by a bemused foreign visitor to London.

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Birthday Blues

Howard Jacobson reflects on birthdays, ageing and Macbeth's incorrigible optimism.

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No-Stalgia

Will Self on why we are in thrall to nostalgia.

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Driving the American Dream

Sarah Dunant reflects on a historic moment in US history - the overturning of Roe v Wade.

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Billionaire Bashing

Zoe Strimpel on why we need more billionaires - the richer the better.

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