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If memory serves, empathy and decency always win over hate 
Paul McNamee

If memory serves, empathy and decency always win over hate 

Comedian Marjolein Robertson on turning folklore and menstruation into comedy gold
Comedy

Comedian Marjolein Robertson on turning folklore and menstruation into comedy gold

Remembering when motorway service stations were a destination in themselves
Transport

Remembering when motorway service stations were a destination in themselves

Karl Jenkins: ‘I’m still not respected in some quarters of classical music’
Letter to my Younger Self

Karl Jenkins: ‘I’m still not respected in some quarters of classical music’

Sea, a paddle and an ice cream on the prom: Celebrating the golden age of the great British seaside
British summer

Sea, a paddle and an ice cream on the prom: Celebrating the golden age of the great British seaside

Top 5 books set in country houses selected by crime novelist Bonnie Burke-Patel  
Books

Top 5 books set in country houses selected by crime novelist Bonnie Burke-Patel  

This is the moment I discovered I was born a refugee
Refugees

This is the moment I discovered I was born a refugee

One of the joys of summer is to talk among the trees at festivals
Robin Ince

One of the joys of summer is to talk among the trees at festivals

How classical music is taking cues from pop’s taste for retro
Music

How classical music is taking cues from pop’s taste for retro

The boiling frog of domestic abuse – and why shame can’t breed where the light shines
Homelessness

The boiling frog of domestic abuse – and why shame can’t breed where the light shines

Jemaine Clement on creating Time Bandits for families to go on an adventure together
TV

Jemaine Clement on creating Time Bandits for families to go on an adventure together

Why bikes and social justice often run into each other
John Bird

Why bikes and social justice often run into each other

No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald review – breaking the generational cycles of harm
Books

No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald review – breaking the generational cycles of harm

How AI might accelerate the onset of a universal basic income
Paul McNamee

How AI might accelerate the onset of a universal basic income

Parade by Rachel Cusk review – captivating in its understatement
Books

Parade by Rachel Cusk review – captivating in its understatement

Letters: How can we have a four-day week when some of us are working seven?
Letters

Letters: How can we have a four-day week when some of us are working seven?

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Alan Titchmarsh makes the Calm app look like a house party thrown by Super Hans
Lucy Sweet

Alan Titchmarsh makes the Calm app look like a house party thrown by Super Hans

Olympic champion Laura Kenny: ‘I was told cycling wasn’t a proper job’
Letter To My Younger Self

Olympic champion Laura Kenny: ‘I was told cycling wasn’t a proper job’

Who was the first to climb Everest? The mystery of George Mallory and who got to the summit first
Books

Who was the first to climb Everest? The mystery of George Mallory and who got to the summit first

‘When I first went inside I wanted to die’: What life’s like inside a UK women’s prison
Prisons

‘When I first went inside I wanted to die’: What life’s like inside a UK women’s prison