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Denise Mina: ‘Writing is a compulsion. It’s not really something you choose to do’
Letter to my Younger Self

Denise Mina: ‘Writing is a compulsion. It’s not really something you choose to do’

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition
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How Herbert Ponting captured Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition

What it’s like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid
LGBTQ+

What it’s like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid

BetterPod: Laura Bates fights institutional misogyny and everyday sexism
violence against women

BetterPod: Laura Bates fights institutional misogyny and everyday sexism

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound
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How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound

Books about jazz you need to read
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Books about jazz you need to read

Life as a midwife aid worker: ‘Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed’
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Life as a midwife aid worker: ‘Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed’

Why I created a book full of weird and wonderful images I found in online archives
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Why I created a book full of weird and wonderful images I found in online archives

Being deaf is no tragedy – it’s one of my greatest strengths
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Being deaf is no tragedy – it’s one of my greatest strengths

I was an Old Bailey judge. Here’s what really goes on in court
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I was an Old Bailey judge. Here’s what really goes on in court

Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review: An intriguing journey with a uniquely inventive writer
Book review

Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review: An intriguing journey with a uniquely inventive writer

Can design solve homelessness, the climate crisis and racism?
BetterPod

Can design solve homelessness, the climate crisis and racism?

Hussain Manawer: ‘From sadness, I created beautiful things’
mental health

Hussain Manawer: ‘From sadness, I created beautiful things’

Companion Piece by Ali Smith review: Finding compassion in a world of everyday injustices
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Companion Piece by Ali Smith review: Finding compassion in a world of everyday injustices

Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy review: A gripping novel about heritage, exile, friendship and family
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Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy review: A gripping novel about heritage, exile, friendship and family

‘You’re rewarded for being funny, not being right’: How Oxford Tory ‘chums’ came to run the country
Politics

‘You’re rewarded for being funny, not being right’: How Oxford Tory ‘chums’ came to run the country

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The scientific reason hate is on the rise
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The scientific reason hate is on the rise

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield review: A mystical thriller with serious depth
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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield review: A mystical thriller with serious depth

Fight Night by Miriam Toews review: The funniest, smartest novel you’ll read this year
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Fight Night by Miriam Toews review: The funniest, smartest novel you’ll read this year

Ben Okri: ‘War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world’
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Ben Okri: ‘War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world’