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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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