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Wonka stars Mathew Baynton and Simon Farnaby: ‘With the help of others you can change the world’
Film

Wonka stars Mathew Baynton and Simon Farnaby: ‘With the help of others you can change the world’

Mrs Brown’s Boys could be the anchor we all need this Christmas
Paul McNamee

Mrs Brown’s Boys could be the anchor we all need this Christmas

Artist and poet Chris Bird: My art is an attempt to create hope and beauty in the everyday
Poetry

Artist and poet Chris Bird: My art is an attempt to create hope and beauty in the everyday

Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson review – gritty, scary, funny and full of heart crime writing
Books

Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson review – gritty, scary, funny and full of heart crime writing

Lame Tories have failed us. Labour must plan to do better
John Bird

Lame Tories have failed us. Labour must plan to do better

Gaslight by Femi Kayode review – a powerful evocation of today’s Nigeria
Books

Gaslight by Femi Kayode review – a powerful evocation of today’s Nigeria

Behind the till with Olivia Colman at Choose Love’s refugee awareness pop-up shop
Choose Love

Behind the till with Olivia Colman at Choose Love’s refugee awareness pop-up shop

What Monsters Inc can teach us about the Dublin riots – and why we should all be a bit more Sulley
Paul McNamee

What Monsters Inc can teach us about the Dublin riots – and why we should all be a bit more Sulley

Ncuti Gatwa: Doctor Who reminds me that there is always hope
TV

Ncuti Gatwa: Doctor Who reminds me that there is always hope

Why we should all get to know a sheep 
Farming

Why we should all get to know a sheep 

Xero Slingsby: The anarchic spirit of British jazz being discovered by a new generation
Music

Xero Slingsby: The anarchic spirit of British jazz being discovered by a new generation

Homeless man asks to be sent to jail for a bed and a meal. It happens more often than you’d think
Homelessness

Homeless man asks to be sent to jail for a bed and a meal. It happens more often than you’d think

Inside the Big Issue: Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor
Inside the magazine

Inside the Big Issue: Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor

Tish Murtha was a brilliant photographer who fought Thatcher with her camera. She deserved better
Film

Tish Murtha was a brilliant photographer who fought Thatcher with her camera. She deserved better

How Star Wars Holiday Special became more powerful than George Lucas could possibly imagine
Film

How Star Wars Holiday Special became more powerful than George Lucas could possibly imagine

Top 5 gothic mysteries, selected by acclaimed queer author CA Castle
Books

Top 5 gothic mysteries, selected by acclaimed queer author CA Castle

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I never knew my mother before her accident. Maybe I was the lucky one
Robin Ince

I never knew my mother before her accident. Maybe I was the lucky one

Merry Xmas Everybody at 50: How a mother-in-law and John Lennon inspired Slade’s festive cracker
Christmas

Merry Xmas Everybody at 50: How a mother-in-law and John Lennon inspired Slade’s festive cracker

How a groundbreaking theatre project is teaching prisoners there’s more to life than crime
prisons

How a groundbreaking theatre project is teaching prisoners there’s more to life than crime

Inside the Big Issue: A-HA! It’s Alan Partridge
Inside the magazine

Inside the Big Issue: A-HA! It’s Alan Partridge