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A visit to The Big Issue mural was like stepping into my former life
John Bird

A visit to The Big Issue mural was like stepping into my former life

Chris Packham: ‘My younger self would be my biggest critic’
Punk and birds

Chris Packham: ‘My younger self would be my biggest critic’

How writing reconnected me with my Bedouin past
Minority writing

How writing reconnected me with my Bedouin past

Melissa Barrera: ‘Carmen represents rebellion’
Interview

Melissa Barrera: ‘Carmen represents rebellion’

Top 5 literary train journeys, selected by Christine Mangan
Fiction

Top 5 literary train journeys, selected by Christine Mangan

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia review: Menacing and magical happenings made believable
horror

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia review: Menacing and magical happenings made believable

My Extinction: How I learned to start worrying and love activism
Opinion

My Extinction: How I learned to start worrying and love activism

Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage
First person

Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage

Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott review: A slow-burning thriller that explodes into horror
Fiction

Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott review: A slow-burning thriller that explodes into horror

Unlike Nigel Farage, millions of people really are financially excluded – that’s who the system is rigged against
Paul McNamee

Unlike Nigel Farage, millions of people really are financially excluded – that’s who the system is rigged against

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – ‘We want this play to sit alongside the campaign for justice’
Grenfell

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – ‘We want this play to sit alongside the campaign for justice’

Izzy-wizzy, let’s get busy with 75 facts about Sooty on his 75th birthday!
TV

Izzy-wizzy, let’s get busy with 75 facts about Sooty on his 75th birthday!

Who will form an Anti-Stupidity Party to save us from ourselves? 
John Bird

Who will form an Anti-Stupidity Party to save us from ourselves? 

The Quatermass Experiment at 70: The show that invented modern TV
Screen

The Quatermass Experiment at 70: The show that invented modern TV

Andy Burnham: ‘Housing is a human right’
Interview

Andy Burnham: ‘Housing is a human right’

Immigration is inevitable. Let’s make it work
Paul McNamee

Immigration is inevitable. Let’s make it work

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How Matthew Halsall enticed new ears to Manchester’s magical jazz scene
Interview

How Matthew Halsall enticed new ears to Manchester’s magical jazz scene

Top 5 unlikely fictional heroes, selected by David Jackson
Fiction

Top 5 unlikely fictional heroes, selected by David Jackson

My Dog Sighs: ‘The power of art is it makes people look at the world in a different way’
Interview

My Dog Sighs: ‘The power of art is it makes people look at the world in a different way’

The question I’d most like to ask Kim Yo-Jong, North Korea’s doyenne of despotism
North Korea

The question I’d most like to ask Kim Yo-Jong, North Korea’s doyenne of despotism