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Patterflash by Adam Lowe review: Acrobatic and winking poems of queer life
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Patterflash by Adam Lowe review: Acrobatic and winking poems of queer life

Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask
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Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask

The UK’s best independent bookshops
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The UK’s best independent bookshops

Glenda Jackson defied expectations to succeed in acting and politics
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Glenda Jackson defied expectations to succeed in acting and politics

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends’
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Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends’

Robert Carlyle interview: ‘The Full Monty is highly political’
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Robert Carlyle interview: ‘The Full Monty is highly political’

Gina Yashere: ‘I was terrified some unscrupulous people would try to out me’
Letter to my Younger Self

Gina Yashere: ‘I was terrified some unscrupulous people would try to out me’

The essential guide to the UK’s best book festivals 2023
Book festivals 2023

The essential guide to the UK’s best book festivals 2023

The best kids’ books for summer 2023
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The best kids’ books for summer 2023

Rocky Horror at 50: ‘A place for the marginalised’
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Rocky Horror at 50: ‘A place for the marginalised’

Summer books: The hottest fiction to read in 2023
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Summer books: The hottest fiction to read in 2023

Jayde Adams on how Take That movie Greatest Days captures the ‘intensity of fandom’
Greatest Days

Jayde Adams on how Take That movie Greatest Days captures the ‘intensity of fandom’

Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’
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Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’

The evolution of Mean Girls on screen… from Heathers to Sex Education
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The evolution of Mean Girls on screen… from Heathers to Sex Education

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on their Sheffield shows: ‘It feels like a victory lap’
Arctic Monkeys x Big Issue

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on their Sheffield shows: ‘It feels like a victory lap’

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a ‘soldier’ for overlooked Black history
Black history

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a ‘soldier’ for overlooked Black history

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From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare
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From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare

First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’
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First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’

Aleister Crowley and the secret history of UK witches in World War II
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Aleister Crowley and the secret history of UK witches in World War II

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’
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Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’