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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

Karens, social media and a crisis of distrust: How to repair our broken social contract
Society

Karens, social media and a crisis of distrust: How to repair our broken social contract

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

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’

CathARTic: The incredible and inspiring way vulnerable people are finding themselves through art
Art

CathARTic: The incredible and inspiring way vulnerable people are finding themselves through art

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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