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The Unlistened-to Story
Howard Jacobson on why stories of truth in war cannot be ignored.
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What is a Woman?
Zoe Strimpel asks the simple-yet-complex question, 'what is a woman?'
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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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Helpless
A L Kennedy reflects on a 1950s experiment in inducing despair.
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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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Every Picture Tells a Story
Sarah Dunant on the power of images in war.
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There Are No Words
Rebecca Stott on conversations with her Russian friend.
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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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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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An Ecological Reparation
John Connell on planting trees on his family farm as reparation for years of flying.
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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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Misopedia
Will Self deplores the British attitude to children, mixing sentimentality with cruelty
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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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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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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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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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On lost souls... and mobile phones
Adam Gopnik on the quest for lost souls.
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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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A Sense of Home
Will Self on our fetishisation of property.
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Sarah Dunant discusses living on a cusp of history.
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But Does it Matterhorn?
Sara Wheeler reflects on why place names matter.
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More Questions Than Answers
Tom Shakespeare on University Challenge and a starter for ten.
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Annoying
AL Kennedy on why everything these days is... annoying.
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The Child Question
Zoe Strimpel on the binary choice of motherhood.
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The Eve of Destruction
Sarah Dunant reflects on political will and its relationship to changing behaviour.
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Car Hatred
Will Self on motor-mania.
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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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Not in My Movie
Sara Wheeler on why it's vital that research into neurodiversity is better understood.
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Talking about Integration
David Goodhart ponders why we're reluctant to talk about integration.
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In Praise of Mathematics
Zia Haider Rahman on why he's introducing his 5-year-old godson to mathematics.
