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Democracy is not in crisis
David Goodhart on why he believes democracy - far from being in crisis - is thriving.
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Brian Walden
Following the death of Brian Walden, this is one of his last talks for A Point of View
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Tackling homelessness
Val McDermid ponders how we can fix homelessness.
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What Would Darwin Do?
Rebecca Stott imagines a conversation with Darwin about our environmental concerns.
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Get Mad, Then Get Over It!
Sarah Dunant proposes a National Anger Day 鈥� a catharsis to help us all be less鈥� angry!
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After the Fire
Joanna Robertson reflects from Paris on the days after the Notre Dame fire.
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Automation...and a packet of frozen peas
AL Kennedy reflects on why automation needs to be governed by human needs and strengths.
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On Holding Forth
Rebecca Stott on her pet hate 鈥� being talked AT!
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Brexit: Failure to compromise
John Gray reflects on where British politics goes from here.
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Where there's muck there's art
Sarah Dunant on the thorny relationship between culture and the money that supports it.
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So Many Kinds of Britons: Who Knew?
Zia Haider Rahman on why Brexit has made him feel closer to Britain.
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A Sense of Chaos
AL Kennedy on why we can鈥檛 afford to despair.
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Calling a spade a spade
Tom Shakespeare on why we are in urgent need of a bit of plain speaking.
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Cookery shows...and hungry people
AL Kennedy on TV's tendency to focus on disappearing parts of our national life.
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Humour that's worth its name
AL Kennedy on how the British sense of humour is standing up to our political woes.
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The Organ Recital
Will Self asks why our relationship with our bodies has become such a distant one.
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The Sea Is Back
Stella Tillyard argues that the sea - long forgotten - is beginning to reassert itself.
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The trouble with referendums
Val McDermid argues that referendums have had a devastating effect on our political system
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Brexit and the English Revolution
Linda Colley asks if - eventually - Brexit could be the modernizing force the UK needs.
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Have we reached Peak Stuff?
Stella Tillyard ponders whether we are freeing ourselves from the grip of 'things'.
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The Online Password
Tom Shakespeare on the near impossible task of remembering online passwords.
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To Parks
Howard Jacobson on the joys of city parks.
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On Not Being Oneself
Howard Jacobson on the Cult of Self.
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Money Sense
Will Self on why personal finance is an utterly alien concept.
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What did you do during the environmental collapse, daddy?
Will Self ponders what we should say to our children about global warming.
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The witch-hunt culture
Roger Scruton argues that political correctness is the ultimate source of our conflicts.
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Speak, History!
Stella Tillyard on why history no longer seems an adequate guide to our present.
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Going into Storage
Howard Jacobson's very tricky dilemma... which of his possessions can he throw away?
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Only Remembered
Michael Morpurgo ponders our future connection with the First World War.
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Clothes and the Man
Howard Jacobson on the politics of clothes.