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Ireland's Abortion Referendum - A Personal View

Sarah Dunant reflects on Ireland's upcoming abortion referendum.

• 10 mins

Summer in the Movies

Amit Chaudhuri reflects on why he believes modern movies lack "enchantment".

• 10 mins

Bobby Kennedy's Assassination - 50 years on

Alistair Cooke's incredible first-hand account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.

• 10 mins

Botcare

Sarah Dunant asks if robots can solve the crisis in care for the elderly.

• 10 mins

A New Anti-Semitism

Will Self on a new wave of anti-Semitism in Britain.

• 10 mins

Mindless Replicants

Will Self on consciousness, humanity and artificial intelligence.

• 10 mins

The Past

Will Self on why we should stop 'looking down on the inferior inhabitants of the past'.

• 10 mins

Cliches and Commonplaces

Adam Gopnik sets out to determine the difference between cliche and universal truth.

• 10 mins

The Conundrum of Inheritance Tax

Sarah Dunant on her uneasy conundrum over inheritance tax.

• 10 mins

Brexit and Illiberal Europe

John Gray argues that staying in the European Union will not protect liberal values.

• 10 mins

Imagine

Michael Morpurgo on a new initiative to help refugee children.

• 10 mins

Think Again

Michael Morpurgo argues it's time to think again over Brexit.

• 10 mins

The Road to Peace

Michael Morpurgo discusses the importance of never taking peace for granted.

• 10 mins

Bin the Bucket List

Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list.

• 10 mins

Books do furnish a room

Tom Shakespeare is downsizing. But what to do with his books?

• 10 mins

Parity of Esteem

Will Self tells the story of what happened to a friend in a psychiatric hospital.

• 10 mins

On Prefixes

Adam Gopnik on why the prefixes we use speak volumes.

• 10 mins

Serena and the Umpire

Adam Gopnik examines the issues raised by the row between Serena Williams and an umpire.

• 10 mins

Murder is not the point

Val McDermid argues that crime fiction is not really about murder at all.

• 9 mins

Fixing violence in London - Glasgow-style

Val McDermid on Sadiq Khan's plans to tackle knife crime.

• 9 mins

The Joy of Deferred Gratification

Val McDermid on why mass tourism is destroying the very thing we crave when we travel.

• 9 mins

Not a good time to be a man

Howard Jacobson reflects on maleness in the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh story.

• 9 mins

In Praise of Mooching

Howard Jacobson on the end of mooching as a way of life.

• 9 mins

Cities of the Dead

Stella Tillyard reflects on how we bury and remember our dead.

• 9 mins

Clothes and the Man

Howard Jacobson on the politics of clothes.

• 9 mins

Only Remembered

Michael Morpurgo ponders our future connection with the First World War.

• 9 mins

Going into Storage

Howard Jacobson's very tricky dilemma... which of his possessions can he throw away?

• 9 mins

Speak, History!

Stella Tillyard on why history no longer seems an adequate guide to our present.

• 9 mins

The witch-hunt culture

Roger Scruton argues that political correctness is the ultimate source of our conflicts.

• 9 mins

What did you do during the environmental collapse, daddy?

Will Self ponders what we should say to our children about global warming.

• 9 mins