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Bob Vylan, Kneecap and the politics of Glastonbury The police have got involved after this year’s festival. Here’s what it was like to be there ...

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But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

Stewart Lee is having none of it. “I don’t have sympathy of any sort with Seinfeld,” he tells me. “A man of his ability, if he’s not able to think a little bit around whatever he imagines are these ...

This is not the time for negotiations over Ukraine. Successful peace negotiations usually require both a mutually hurting stalemate (a specific concept in diplomacy) and leadership on both sides ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

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What a viral fake lasagne taught me about failure After it appeared in the Museum of Failure in 2017, photos of the "Colgate Lasagna" began to go viral on Twitter and Reddit—not to mention in ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

If current immigration levels continue, white Britons will be in a minority in the UK in little more than 50 years—within the lifespan of most young a ...