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Music

‘We had hardly any money but a lot of fun’: Morten Harket talks Take On Me and the early days of A-ha

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sci-fi

Doug Johnstone: How a stroke led to my first contact with aliens

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Opinion

Sam Delaney’s guide to surviving a family party

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Politics

Betty Boothroyd: From campaigning for JFK to becoming the first female speaker

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Opinion

A poverty manifesto about the glues, syrups and treacles that get people stuck

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campaigning

‘I want to help people to come together collectively for a solution’: Dane Baptiste becomes a Big Issue Ambassador

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seasonal recommendations

Spring reads: Best of this season’s book releases

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A-ha

Morten Harket: ‘Fame is a massive onslaught on any human being’

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Paul McNamee

Malign rhetoric on refugees is not welcome here

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Letter to My Younger Self

Daniel Mays: ‘Becoming a dad made me a better person and a better actor, it galvanised me’

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Inequality

Bernie Sanders: ‘Real fundamental change never comes easily’

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Recommended

Top 5 books about migrants, chosen by Sam Miller

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Books

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai review: A superbly paced mystery

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short stories

The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan: A fabulous reissue

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Interview

Sharper director Benjamin Caron: ‘Money basically equals success in New York’

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animation

Oscar-nominated Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is ‘a charming, magic trick of a movie’

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Protest

Mark Rylance: We must remember Brian Haw, ‘the most adhesive of protesters’

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first person

Colonialism’s ghosts of the Caribbean

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Libraries

The library is a centre of empathy we cannot afford to lose

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