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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

Gareth Thomas on HIV, stigma and the myths people really need to unlearn: ‘We still have far to go’
World Aids Day

Gareth Thomas on HIV, stigma and the myths people really need to unlearn: ‘We still have far to go’

COP28: Here’s how a just transition from fossil fuels can save us
Kim Goodall

COP28: Here’s how a just transition from fossil fuels can save us

London must unite to stand up against anti-Semitism
Sam Delaney

London must unite to stand up against anti-Semitism

Bad leadership is the greatest tragedy of human life. It’s time to give the people a shot
John Bird

Bad leadership is the greatest tragedy of human life. It’s time to give the people a shot

Noddy Holder on possible Slade reunion and defying cancer: ‘I’m still alive, thank god’
Letter to my younger self

Noddy Holder on possible Slade reunion and defying cancer: ‘I’m still alive, thank god’

The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova review – unsettling short stories of grimy austerity
Books

The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova review – unsettling short stories of grimy austerity

Harold Wilson’s mistress-cum-secretary Marcia Williams was more trailblazer than troublemaker 
Politics

Harold Wilson’s mistress-cum-secretary Marcia Williams was more trailblazer than troublemaker 

Love Actually: Is it a Christmas classic or an unwatchable schmaltz-fest? 
Film

Love Actually: Is it a Christmas classic or an unwatchable schmaltz-fest? 

Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah review – relentlessly anti-capitalist
Books

Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah review – relentlessly anti-capitalist

Napoleon review – a man at war with the world and himself
Film

Napoleon review – a man at war with the world and himself

Education isn’t an exact science – but proper investment is vital
Paul McNamee

Education isn’t an exact science – but proper investment is vital

This orchestra is giving dementia sufferers something to sing about: ‘Music changes lives’
Dementia

This orchestra is giving dementia sufferers something to sing about: ‘Music changes lives’

I’m on holiday, my hotel is cursed and I have a crush on a Spanish game show host
Lucy Sweet

I’m on holiday, my hotel is cursed and I have a crush on a Spanish game show host

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‘The wine trade is changing’: Is technology the solution to the great wine fraud?
Wine

‘The wine trade is changing’: Is technology the solution to the great wine fraud?

Russell T Davies on returning to Doctor Who, queer representation and ‘maddest’ episodes yet
TV

Russell T Davies on returning to Doctor Who, queer representation and ‘maddest’ episodes yet

Property inflation divided Britain – this is what needs to be done to fix it
Rowan Moore

Property inflation divided Britain – this is what needs to be done to fix it

Black Friday’s capitalist roots actually stretch back 3.4 million years. No, seriously
Black Friday

Black Friday’s capitalist roots actually stretch back 3.4 million years. No, seriously