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Why Sweden is top when it comes to pop
Abba winning Eurovision
Malcolm Jack

Why Sweden is top when it comes to pop

Mark Rylance: 'There's a loss of identity in England – who are we other than post-imperial bastards?'
Mark Rylance
Film

Mark Rylance: 'There's a loss of identity in England – who are we other than post-imperial bastards?'

Transnistria: The country that doesn't exist but could shape the future of Russia and Europe
Ukraine invasion

Transnistria: The country that doesn't exist but could shape the future of Russia and Europe

'My mum can’t take it much longer’: Ukrainians turned away as UK visa centres fail to cope with demand
Rally against war in Ukraine with flags and sign reading
Ukraine invasion

'My mum can’t take it much longer’: Ukrainians turned away as UK visa centres fail to cope with demand

Farewell Betty Davis: Raw funk pioneer
Deb Grant

Farewell Betty Davis: Raw funk pioneer

Has Coventry's year as UK City of Culture shaken off its Ghost Town past?
Music

Has Coventry's year as UK City of Culture shaken off its Ghost Town past?

'We could be creating flood risk ghettos': How flooding hits the UK's poorest hardest
Willow Bank Caravan Park, Bentley, with flood water.
Flooding

'We could be creating flood risk ghettos': How flooding hits the UK's poorest hardest

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

Spotify row: why artists should take lessons from Garth Brooks

What 4,756,940 pieces of Lego lost at sea tell us about our attitudes to plastic pollution
Environment

What 4,756,940 pieces of Lego lost at sea tell us about our attitudes to plastic pollution

Terezín: Music the Nazis couldn't silence
Music

Terezín: Music the Nazis couldn't silence

Plunderphonia: reinventing legends for modern ears
Music

Plunderphonia: reinventing legends for modern ears

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

Barry Cryer: A life ‘dogged by good luck’
Barry Cryer in You'll Have Had Your Tea, 2006. Photo Andy Davison
Barry Cryer

Barry Cryer: A life ‘dogged by good luck’

Evangeline Lilly: 'If you lined up all the characters I've played, it would be hard to identify me'
Film

Evangeline Lilly: 'If you lined up all the characters I've played, it would be hard to identify me'

Charles Mingus: The angry man of jazz
Jazz

Charles Mingus: The angry man of jazz

'We are turning into a corrupt country': Jeremy Irons and Robert Harris on their new Netflix film
Film

'We are turning into a corrupt country': Jeremy Irons and Robert Harris on their new Netflix film

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Actor Danielle Deadwyler: 'The caring Black women do for community is motherhood beyond biology'
Danielle Deadwyler Image: Dustin Chambers/The New York Times/Eyevine
Film

Actor Danielle Deadwyler: 'The caring Black women do for community is motherhood beyond biology'

Changemakers 2022: Refugees and asylum seekers
Changemakers 2022

Changemakers 2022: Refugees and asylum seekers

Changemakers 2022: The arts
Changemakers 2022

Changemakers 2022: The arts

Changemakers 2022: Workers' rights
Weetabix workers on strike at Corby factory.
Changemakers 2022

Changemakers 2022: Workers' rights

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