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Sweden is forecast to become cashless by 2030.
With no schooling, medical records or birth certificate, Tara Westover spent her youth preparing for the End of Days.
How a left-wing coalition government has functioned better than even its creators could have hoped.
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
For all its spiel about “connecting the world”, the social network is an advertising business that has prospered by harvesting our data.
The US has tried to turn away from the Middle East, leaving Russia as the dominant foreign power.
After the Salisbury poisoning, Britain could rely on the unanimous support of France, Germany and the US in condemning the attack
Because they are fashionable and we like their products, these multinational companies have been grotesquely indulged.
Without tackling the underlying issues, a gender quota will largely see the slots filled with white, privately educated Oxbridge women.
McDonnell was quick to declare Russia responsible for the attack on the Skripals, while Corbyn stopped short of assigning blame.
Once part of a great empire, Hungary has become used to standing alone. But as the prime minister prepares for re-election, his corrupt and puffed up regime is spreading fear and anxiety.
In some ways, the revolutionaries of 1968 helped capitalism flourish.
He was once the bright, young innovator of the European game. Now Mourinho is a brooding presence who, in crunch situations, has an inclination to negativity.
It is hard to exaggerate how deeply the public prefer a former soldier, especially one who has seen active service, to a former lawyer, special adviser or trade union official.
Phil Whitaker draws on his experiences as a doctor to investigate how close we are to a cure for the “emperor of all maladies”.
Rock’s oddest couple on Trump, Brexit, privilege and the perils of the public laundromat.
A new poem by Grey Gowrie.
Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s ambitious new novel has notes of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
In The Dreams of Bethany Bellmoth, perhaps Boyd has earned the right to take his foot off the gas.
The typical movie vigilante shares traits with the Trump voter: a white, middle-aged, middle-class male who regards himself as endangered.
As a portraitist and latterly a chronicler of the American persona, Avedon was a true visual shape-shifter.
In 1969, Nelson was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his own mother. When he was released, he applied to become a Church of Scotland minister.
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
Five performances of Macbeth are on offer in Britain this spring: along with a ballet, a movie, and a novelisation by Jo Nesbo.
The Beast from the East may have delayed spring, but at least we have great new kids’ stories from north, south, east and west.
Sade mixed slick soul with social realism to create a unique sound. Now, after eight years, she’s back.
It was, for the artist, a year of intense and focused activity – even by his own standards.
Punk’s inability to contain women, and their subsequent erasure, has been part of its hegemonic celebration by guys of a certain vintage.
Playwright and director Conor McPherson is always dancing with Dylan but never stepping on his toes.
The success of Cunk as a character is not thanks to her general persona as an ill-informed pundit, but her bizarre turns of phrase.
John Milton dictated Paradise Lost to assistants. 350 years on, the poem still sounds like it was meant to be read aloud.
Plus, a look at the broadcaster’s far less remarkable new drama, Come Home, starring Christopher Eccleston.
The Dutch city is not that pretty outside of the centre, and is punitively expensive everywhere.
“Nice one, son” was once sung for Cyril Knowles. Now, with the arrival of Son Heung-min, the chant has been repurposed.
A look at the history behind Easter treats from around the globe.
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