Tupac Shakur: lion or loser?
The mythologised rapper was a natural shapeshifter – who no one ever truly got to know
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Mr Jones: how a Welsh journalist exposed the horror of Stalin’s Ukraine famines
A new film on the Soviet-era tragedy resonates powerfully in an age of political deceit.
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Why vaccine hesitancy is a giant threat to global health and the conspiracy theory of our times
It has been 21 years since the British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the Lancet proposing a…
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Want to win an argument online? Don’t give away your political position upfront
Partisan hashtags give egoists and grifters a shortcut to a diehard following and reinforce online echo chambers.
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How Peterson, Shapiro and the online right would rather attack the left than debate them
A sort of intellectual cage-fighting in which the aim is to DISMANTLE, DESTROY and OBLITERATE your opponent.
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The online right wants politics out of comics, but they have always been bastions of liberal thinking
Even as a child, I got the message that you shouldn’t stigmatise anyone for being different, even if that…
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When musicians die young today online mourning turns their deaths into a whodunnit
If social media had existed, I’m sure I would have immediately heard conspiracy theories about how Kurt Cobain died.
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From Martian invasions to Andrew Marr in Bodyguard, we are most credulous when reality feels unreal
If you imagine an online equivalent to Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds in 2018, there’s no reason…
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Morrissey, so much to answer for
There are no excuses left for the former Smiths frontman’s repugnant political views.
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