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The case against the ‘climate realists’
In their new book, two prominent eco-Marxists examine just how reasonable it is to think we can ‘solve’ environmental breakdown without changing the world
Richard Roberts
Media Confidential
Does the news need gatekeeping?
People
Ian McEwan: ‘We have robbed the past of its privacy’
Graeme Green
Local Government
Hidden council tax debt is eroding trust in local politics
The Covert Councillor
Racism
‘Damn Jews’: a letter to my friend
Sarah Manches
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The case against the ‘climate realists’
Richard Roberts
PEOPLE
Ian McEwan: ‘We have robbed the past of its privacy’
Graeme Green
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Hidden council tax debt is eroding trust in local politics
The Covert Councillor
RACISM
‘Damn Jews’: a letter to my friend
Sarah Manches
POLITICS
I helped bring Mandelson down before
Alan Rusbridger
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONAL
The Palestine Action proscription and UK terrorism law
DAT Green
POLITICS
The hypocrisy of our hard-right ‘protectors’
Ellen Halliday
LIVES
Second life: My love affair with Estonia
Vitali Vitaliev
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BBC Sounds turns inwards
Mark Damazer
ENVIRONMENT
Why the ‘Paris Agreement’ of plastics ended in failure
Tim Smedley
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I helped bring Mandelson down before
Alan Rusbridger
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The hypocrisy of our hard-right ‘protectors’
Ellen Halliday
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The Palestine Action proscription and UK terrorism law
DAT Green
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Reading aloud isn’t just for children
Sasha Mudd From the magazine
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Tech bros used to be progressive. What happened?
Ethan Zuckerman From the magazine
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Second life: My love affair with Estonia
Vitali Vitaliev
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Clerical life: Hope is the only antidote to climate despair
Alice Goodman From the magazine
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I went to a wedding and didn’t shag a groomsman
Alice Garnett From the magazine
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Long life: I’m so grateful for my relationships
Sheila Hancock From the magazine
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Sex life: The challenges of being a lesbian party girl
Tilly Lawless
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Environment
Why the ‘Paris Agreement’ of plastics ended in failure
Those who hoped to curtail plastic production—and the health risks associated with the stuff—were disappointed. Oil lobbyists, less so
Tim Smedley
Palestine
Lessons from Bosnia for Palestinian statehood
Jago Salmon
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Should Starmer embrace populism?
Prospect Team
Refugees
The babies at the border in northern France
Sarah Collins
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On not reviewing Virginia Woolf
Here’s what happened when I tried to get a copy of her uncollected letters. Consider it a parable about money and the state of literary culture
Oliver Soden
Culture
Sydney Sweeney, genetics and genre
Laura Barton
One painting at a time
One painting at a time: ‘The Little Pastry Chef’ by Chaïm Soutine
Susan Gray
Culture
Donald Trump’s (alleged) micropenis
Imogen West-Knights
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The Ukrainians clearing Russian mines
Kyiv backed a life-saving landmine ban in 1999. Now, with Russian mines endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine, it wants to set its own traps for the invaders
Jen Stout
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Japan
Inside the murky world of Japan’s private detective agencies
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In Egypt, displaced Palestinians have been forgotten
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The YouTube prankster who became an MEP
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