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Eight ways Wordle can be improved (and making it more difficult is not one)
Wordle has captured the world's attention for it's simplicity and addictiveness
Wordle

Eight ways Wordle can be improved (and making it more difficult is not one)

'Evil' or 'planet struck': How the curious ways we described deaths in the past shaped how we live now
Andrew Doig

'Evil' or 'planet struck': How the curious ways we described deaths in the past shaped how we live now

Jon Ronson: 'Everything's become a culture war'
Culture

Jon Ronson: 'Everything's become a culture war'

Tyne Daly: 'I saw an opportunity in Cagney & Lacey to play interesting parts for women'
Letter To My Younger Self

Tyne Daly: 'I saw an opportunity in Cagney & Lacey to play interesting parts for women'

Spotify row: why artists should take lessons from Garth Brooks
Music

Spotify row: why artists should take lessons from Garth Brooks

'She was just so cool': Peaky Blinders stars pay tribute to Helen McCrory ahead of final season
TV

'She was just so cool': Peaky Blinders stars pay tribute to Helen McCrory ahead of final season

Colm Meaney would 'absolutely go for' a Star Trek series centred around Worf
TV

Colm Meaney would 'absolutely go for' a Star Trek series centred around Worf

Flee proves that we truly are in a golden age of animation
Film

Flee proves that we truly are in a golden age of animation

Can Uncharted break the curse of an entire genre?
Film

Can Uncharted break the curse of an entire genre?

Terezín: Music the Nazis couldn't silence
Music

Terezín: Music the Nazis couldn't silence

Monica Ali: 'You have to have a core of self-belief to be a writer'
Letter To My Younger Self

Monica Ali: 'You have to have a core of self-belief to be a writer'

Mo Gilligan: 'The fact I get to host the Brits still hasn't sunk in'
Music

Mo Gilligan: 'The fact I get to host the Brits still hasn't sunk in'

Mel Giedroyc: 'I thought, oh my god, what if my mum could hear me doing all this rudery?'
TV

Mel Giedroyc: 'I thought, oh my god, what if my mum could hear me doing all this rudery?'

Adam Kay: 'Before the pandemic the NHS was running on empty and it turned out those were the good old days'
NHS

Adam Kay: 'Before the pandemic the NHS was running on empty and it turned out those were the good old days'

Sam Fender: 'A lot of people don't like the idea they might be privileged'
Sam Fender Photo: Mary Turner/The New York Times
Music

Sam Fender: 'A lot of people don't like the idea they might be privileged'

Plunderphonia: reinventing legends for modern ears
Music

Plunderphonia: reinventing legends for modern ears

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Russell Watson: 'I never had any ambition to be a singer at all'
Letter To My Younger Self

Russell Watson: 'I never had any ambition to be a singer at all'

'A lot of Disney soundtrack vibe': Neil Hannon reveals the music that made The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy Neil Hannon looks back at the music that made him. Photo: Kevin Westenberg
The Music That Made Me

'A lot of Disney soundtrack vibe': Neil Hannon reveals the music that made The Divine Comedy

Pam & Tommy: Who owns Pamela Anderson's story?
TV

Pam & Tommy: Who owns Pamela Anderson's story?

How The Big Issue is helping to keep London's music scene alive
Live Music

How The Big Issue is helping to keep London's music scene alive

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