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Chris and Rosie Ramsey: ‘If I get a laugh out of you, I’ll tell you anything’

The nation’s favourite podcasting couple Chris and Rosie Ramsey talk about their record-breaking success – and what makes their marriage work

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Sam Bright

The left’s blind spot: London and regional inequality

Labour has become ideologically and politically detached from the red wall – because its thought-leaders have retreated to the all-consuming capital, writes journalist and author Sam Bright.

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Skint: the BBC’s new series of monologues are informed by lived experience of poverty

Writers Kerry Hudson, Jenny Fagan and Rachel Trezise are bringing their lived experience of poverty to new BBC4 monologue series Skint

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How I wrote Tides: A novelist’s search for solitude

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Author Okechukwu Nzelu: ‘I’m interested in love stories that go far beyond boy meets girl’

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Why Māori women in New Zealand are disproportionately likely to be homeless

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Author Scott Anderson on the last CIA survivor of the Cold War

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How Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, staged his own rehabilitation

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Zaahida Nabagereka

We must diversify the books taught in our classrooms

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Culture

Lemn Sissay: ‘It has been a hard journey at times, but it has also been a great one’

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What author and neurologist Ian Bone wants people to understand about epilepsy

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Book reviews

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara review: An evocative novel about echoes, cycles, and regrets

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Love Marriage by Monica Ali review: A novel of immense brightness

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