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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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The Meanings of Conservatism

John Gray ponders the true meaning of Conservatism.

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Chance and Opportunity

David Goodhart ponders the idea of 'smart luck'.

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Climate Change and the Fall of Icarus

Tom Shakespeare grapples with a tricky personal decision over his carbon footprint.

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Dance Cocky

Howard Jacobson reflects on summer festivals, conformity and a dancing cockatoo.

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No Final Frontier

Sara Wheeler navigates the tricky issue of voice appropriation.

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The Samsara of Salmon

John Connell reflects on the plight of vanishing salmon and what it means for our planet

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