Why endless TV and music options on Netflix and Spotify are leaving us paralysed by choice
The problem is not “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)”, as Bruce Springsteen put it, but the opposite: there is…
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Broken Europe
Forget fireworks, sheets of flame and Adam Levine’s nipples, I’ll stick to half-time British-style
A Snickers, going to the loo and listening to the raffle over the PA…
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From evening email bans to a four-day week, why it’s time to rethink our addiction to work
The five-day week feels natural, immortal, set in stone, even though it only arrived with the Industrial Revolution.
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The Robin’s Funeral
A new poem by Steven O’Brien.
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George Alagiah’s Diary: Fighting my way back into the Beeb, building a new museum – and the modern-day Les Mis
“Been away, have you?” the cashier at the BBC canteen asked.
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The Stalin of the Caribbean: how Nicolás Maduro betrayed the Venezuelan revolution
Faced with a dystopian economy, the president is resorting to ever more repressive means to maintain control.
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Exploring memory in the graphic novel
Most of us look back with a certain amount of longing. Two new graphic novels break with tradition.
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How workers’ control of industry could transform the British economy
Faced with Nissan’s retreat and the decline of manufacturing, the left should take inspiration from the radical 1976 Lucas Plan.
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Bruno Latour: the philosopher fighting to save science from itself
In his latest book Down to Earth, the French thinker warns that facts alone are no defence against populism.
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Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth fails to reliably report on the new media
It is, at the very minimum, ironic that a book about slipping media standards is full of errors.
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Dialogues with the dead: a harrowing new novel from Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End is a short, ruthlessly heartbreaking book.
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Channel 4’s OCD comedy Pure is warm-hearted without being sentimental
Marnie knows there’s something wrong with her. Every day she is plagued by disturbing sexual images.
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Commons Confidential: The election-unready Tories
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The US Democrats search for a saviour
With as many as 20 presidential hopefuls, the party is not short of candidates to fight Donald Trump. But…
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Searching for the connection between Michelangelo and Bill Viola
Michelangelo and Bill Viola both set out to investigate the ineffable – but in a new double show at…
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James Blake finds new joy on his third record, Assume Form
Plus: a new solo record from Ian Brown.
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The mysterious sanity of Evan Davis
News presenters all go mad in the end. So why is Evan Davis brisk, frank – and still sane?
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Every episode of Sky Atlantic’s Das Boot is like a thrilling shot of something very illegal
Plus, Channel 4’s Ride Upon the Storm.
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Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk captures the psychological horror of racism
Standfirst: In this James Baldwin adaptation, Jenkins’s knack for finding visual equivalents for literary pleasures exceeds expectations.
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When even local papers are asking Corbyn about anti-Semitism, a Labour split looks highly likely
Would-be splitters aren’t merely preoccupied by anti-Semitism, but it is the issue that makes the easier path of keeping their…
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Mme Julia Correvon, Marie Boisselot and Elizabeth are sad in winter, so give them a prune
There are probably more ideas about clematis pruning than there are gardeners. But I have my tried and tested…
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With five youngsters and her beau in tow, the Estranged Wife and I reflect on what we pulled from our wreckage
Thank you, I said, for insisting on having children, I was worried that I would be a terrible father. “You were!!!”…
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The chill wind blowing across Europe, our crumbling party system and the Windies’ win
The eastern European states, in particular, are tilting ever closer towards authoritarianism.
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Like most singers, I used to get heckled at gigs – but if I’m honest, did I secretly enjoy it?
“Concert in San Francisco in the 1990s. Audience complained about sound levels, you replied, ‘You don’t think I’m mixing…
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Heart disease kills more women than anything else – so why do men get all the attention?
Even if women receive the correct diagnosis of heart disease, they are less likely to have the appropriate treatment.
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“I’d be happier if the BBC gave me another TV series”
The broadcaster and former Paralympian on Nineties rave music, Nelson Mandela, and Game of Thrones.
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Leader: The benefits of a shorter working week
Far from lowering productivity, working fewer hours increases it by reducing mental illness, absenteeism, worker turnover and early retirement.
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