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The cyclist, though, was enraged. “THAT’S CLEVER, ISN’T IT?” she yelled. “WALKING IN THE ROAD!”
Amid the battles, a generation starves.
This week, from Barack Obama’s legacy to memories of Angela Carter.
At party conference in Glasgow, I heard Scotland’s governing party demand a future distinctly different from the one being sketched out in Westminster.
Once, it was trendy to say you liked the former director of Liberty. No longer.
The UK is worth preserving, yet it must be reconfigured if its constituent nations are to be better served.
Campbell chats, Labour spats, and the moderate voice in Momentum.
The socialist director’s long war on poverty continues with his new film I, Daniel Blake.
What we're dealing with is a man who wants to grab the whole world by the pussy and is bewildered and furious when the pussy grabs back.
Do negative interactions lead to negative emotions, or can arguing on the internet actually be positive for people's mental health?
Theo Epstein is a star because he values the person as much as the player.
After an “us and them” narrative this strong is established, often any empathy for “them” gets lost.
The new squeeze in living standards is a political risk for the Prime Minister.
The Syrian catastrophe has created the worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War. And the world watches helplessly as Putin and Assad commit war crimes.
Profound changes in technology, work and community are transforming our ultrasocial species into a population of loners.
Labour held three separate inquiries into anti-Semitism within its ranks during the first part of 2016. A new book by Dave Rich investigates how we got to this point.
Safran Foer is as known for his character as for his works. What a shame, when Here I Am is such a mature, multilayered novel.
Madeleine Bunting’s account of her travels in the Hebrides reveals an often-overlooked history.
American author Paul Beatty’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel shows how “equal justice under law” remains an abstract concept for much of black America.
At 82, Alan Bennett has lost none of his wit or compassion – nor his anger at the “nastification” of Britain.
“Do you have vampires around here?”
A History of Pictures by David Hockney and Martin Gayford gleefully punctures the pretentiousness of the art world.
Michael Howard reviews Iain Martin's new book on the legacy of the financial revolution 30 years on.
Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve discovered that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete. So what to make of Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli?
For its part, Radio 1 was too absorbed by the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards to mention the proclamation on Newsbeat.
In Sonita, the girls chat about the opposite sex just like any other group of teenagers, except that here they are comparing the ages of their husbands-to-be. Plus: Queen of Katwe.
Whenever Anthony Hopkins appears, you’re only five seconds away from another lame aphorism. Plus: Divorce.
Underlying the Statin Wars are two different world-views: the technological and holistic.
So off I go to Birmingham, the city where J G Ballard meets Captain Kirk.
Every team has its hard man. Is there anything more satisfying than booing them?
It wasn’t like in the cartoons at all: speed wasn’t a factor, or at least it wouldn’t be, until much later in the game.
"Spinsters are still beyond the pale."
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