Two-tier Keir / Starmer’s disdain for conservatives could be his undoing
Backpacker Nirvana / How debauchery turns to tragedy in towns like Vang Vieng
Petition / Swing seats back another election
Who are Labour’s new working class voters? / An interview with Claire Ainsley
Books / A shortage of Nigels and other calamities: humorous stocking-fillers
From the magazineRadio & podcasts / Avoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed
From the magazineReal life / The revenge of the anger management counsellor
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From the magazineThe Wiki Man / Why forcing a return to the office won’t work
From the magazineWho are Labour’s new working class voters? / An interview with Claire Ainsley
Books / A shortage of Nigels and other calamities: humorous stocking-fillers
From the magazineRadio & podcasts / Avoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed
From the magazineReal life / The revenge of the anger management counsellor
From the magazineDear Mary / Dear Mary: How can I avoid a lunge on a date?
From the magazineThe Wiki Man / Why forcing a return to the office won’t work
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Streeting is causing trouble for Starmer
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Avote on assisted dying was supposed to be one of the easiest reforms for Keir Starmer’s government. To many, including the Prime Minister himself, a law allowing terminally ill patients to choose to die would be a self-evidently progressive and historically significant change. It would mean Britain could transcend the objections of a religious minority
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Avote on assisted dying was supposed to be one of the easiest reforms for Keir Starmer’s government. To many, including the Prime Minister himself, a law allowing terminally ill patients to choose to die would be a self-evidently progressive and historically significant change. It would mean Britain could transcend the objections of a religious minority
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A spectacular failure: Royal Ballet’s MaddAddam reviewed
From the magazineAdapting ballets out of plot-heavy novels set in fantasy locations and populated with multiple characters is a rubbish idea. The profound truth of such a proposal is forcefully borne out by the wretched muddle of Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, an over-inflated farrago drawn from a triptych of visionary fictions by Margaret Atwood. McGregor – hugely talented
What a remarkably bad electric guitar player Bob Dylan is
From the magazineAvoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed
From the magazineHow did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?
From the magazineStimulating little exhibition: Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites reviewed
From the magazineDazzling: Marc-André Hamelin’s Hammerklavier
From the magazineHeart-warming but safe biographical drama: Going for Gold, at Park90, reviewed
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