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Howard Jacobson reflects on present wrapping
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The Creep of the On-Screen Narrative
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The Secret Life of Food
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The Limits of Reason
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Little Amal
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Suffer the Children
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In Praise of Mathematics
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Not in My Movie
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Two Small Scandals
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Car Hatred
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The Eve of Destruction
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The Child Question
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Annoying
AL Kennedy on why everything these days is... annoying.
More Questions Than Answers
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But Does it Matterhorn?
Sara Wheeler reflects on why place names matter.
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Sarah Dunant discusses living on a cusp of history.
A Sense of Â鶹ԼÅÄ
Will Self on our fetishisation of property.
The Sea at Christmas
Howard Jacobson stares out to sea....and ponders the 'mysterious nexus of sea and Santa'.
On lost souls... and mobile phones
Adam Gopnik on the quest for lost souls.
On Rapid Â鶹ԼÅÄ Delivery
Zoe Strimpel reflects on the impact of rapid home delivery on the way we live our lives.
Etonian Lives Matter... but not as much as they used to.
David Goodhart rejects what he calls the 'Eton conspiracy myth'.
The Right Side of History
Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present - or future.
Leaving the Ivory Tower
As she leaves academia, Rebecca Stott says an audit culture is stifling universities.
Misopedia
Will Self deplores the British attitude to children, mixing sentimentality with cruelty
Selective Vision
Sara Wheeler reflects on the harm done by seeing only from our own point of view.
An Ecological Reparation
John Connell on planting trees on his family farm as reparation for years of flying.
It's Not Their War
Sara Wheeler says that the attack on Ukraine is not the war of Russians she has known.
Return of the Bomb
Will Self argues that the threat of a nuclear apocalypse has never really gone away.