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Laughter

Why do we laugh? This is the question the evolutionary ecologist Jonathan Silvertown sets out to...

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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance

Amol Rajan explores different ways of thinking, and how far humans can be seen as unique for...

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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance

Amol Rajan explores different ways of thinking, and how far humans can be seen as unique for...

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Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading

‘A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its...

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Landscapes real and imagined

Ireland itself is a main character in Kevin Barry's new short story collection, That Old Country...

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Physics in all its glory

Sir Roger Penrose was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics this year for his...

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Great women of the classics

The Latin scholar Shadi Bartsch has written a new translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid. She tells...

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China and the global order

The pandemic has exposed serious weaknesses in Western governments, according to John...

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Fake news and data lies: how to win an election

Fake news, conspiracy theories, and weaponising data to influence elections are all aspects of...

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Care and compassion

We are facing a crisis in care that could prove disastrous, according to the journalist Madeleine...

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Contested histories

Europeans and Africans have been encountering one another since as early as the 3rd century,...

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Faith in the modern world

The prize-winning writer Marilynne Robinson and the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan...

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Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood

Claudia Rankine, one of America’s leading literary figures, and the double-Booker Prize winner...

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The Radical Agenda

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour movement promised radical change but ended disastrously with the 2019...

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Meritocracy and inequality

As inequality continues to rise and political and social divisions become more entrenched, Amol...

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Nature notes, from farming to fungi

The first episode of the new season. Andrew Marr and guests stop to consider the natural world...

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Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest

Tom Sutcliffe discusses racism, the traps of history and the Black Lives Matter movement with the...

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James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature. It...

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Our coercive politics

The Coronavirus pandemic and ongoing protests in America have shone a spotlight on the power of...

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The Future

‘The future is a foreign country; they do things differently there’ – to misquote LP Hartley....

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