Eighth Grade: a charming, knowing portrait of teenage embarrassment
When David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin made The Social Network, they wore with pride the aversion to Facebook that gave…
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What would Christopher Hitchens do?
An hour devoted to Christopher Hitchens (13 April, 8pm), broadcast in the week of both Julian Assange’s arrest and the…
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The science behind the human urge to tell stories
Although it has been more than 60 years since Ernst Gombrich delivered his Mellon lectures on art and illusion –…
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Destruction Horizon
On the streets, priests spoke of omens, babbling voices in the lock-down Basilica, laughter rattling out from empty theatres, a…
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How millennial socialism went global
In the decade since the 2008 financial crisis, the advanced economies have disappointed on many fronts. Productivity is stagnant across…
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A Sky news anchor asked me why tenants deserved more rights than landlords. This is why
The interviewer tried to frame my experience of eviction as a result of my “lack of renting skills”, before admitting…
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The Ukip-shaped challenge facing Nigel Farage and his new Brexit Party
Ukip will go into the 2019 European parliamentary elections with the same number of MEPs that the party won in…
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Conspiracy theories about the Notre Dame fire are already beginning to spread
When the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris began in the late afternoon on 15 April, millions of people…
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