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Here's the truth about lie detectors
Life

Here's the truth about lie detectors

Ben Okri: 'War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world'
Books

Ben Okri: 'War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world'

Why I left my job and opened a forest school
Forest Schools
Environment

Why I left my job and opened a forest school

The story of Chervona Ruta – Ukraine's pop song of resistance
Music

The story of Chervona Ruta – Ukraine's pop song of resistance

Channing Tatum was seemingly engineered in a lab to give uncomplicated pleasures to audiences
The lost City
Film

Channing Tatum was seemingly engineered in a lab to give uncomplicated pleasures to audiences

The guerrilla gardeners claiming back space for nature
Ellen Miles, a guerrilla gardener planting in her neighbourhood.
Earth Day 2022

The guerrilla gardeners claiming back space for nature

Liam Gallagher’s hips and the politicians who won’t be here now
Liam Gallagher
Paul McNamee

Liam Gallagher’s hips and the politicians who won’t be here now

How Manchester became the UK's jazz capital
Music

How Manchester became the UK's jazz capital

Robert Macfarlane: 'We’ve almost run out of language to describe and evoke breakdown and warming'
Environment

Robert Macfarlane: 'We’ve almost run out of language to describe and evoke breakdown and warming'

Britain is facing an invisible extinction of biodiversity
Small frog with fingers pointing towards it.
Earth Day 2022

Britain is facing an invisible extinction of biodiversity

Fifty years after the Gaia hypothesis was first published, understanding it is more vital than ever
Earth Day 2022

Fifty years after the Gaia hypothesis was first published, understanding it is more vital than ever

Sing the Resolution Song for Earth Day
Resolution Song
Environment

Sing the Resolution Song for Earth Day

Thomasin McKenzie and Sian Clifford compare acting to their new series Life After Life
Thomasin McKenzie in Life After Life
TV

Thomasin McKenzie and Sian Clifford compare acting to their new series Life After Life

The Wonders by Elena Medel review: a gripping portrayal of poverty and powerlessness
Friends in bright colours
Book review

The Wonders by Elena Medel review: a gripping portrayal of poverty and powerlessness

Robin Ince: Columbo and killer crabs
Red wine and book
Robin Ince

Robin Ince: Columbo and killer crabs

The gloom of war and poverty will find its way into the art of the future
John Bird

The gloom of war and poverty will find its way into the art of the future

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Derry Girls: ‘What Lisa McGee has done is change the path for all Derry girls going forward’
TV

Derry Girls: ‘What Lisa McGee has done is change the path for all Derry girls going forward’

Why we need to talk about Anatomy of a Scandal according to Michelle Dockery and Naomi Scott
TV

Why we need to talk about Anatomy of a Scandal according to Michelle Dockery and Naomi Scott

Peter Mullan: 'This is a party who single-handedly created food banks. That should be on the collective Tory gravestone'
TV

Peter Mullan: 'This is a party who single-handedly created food banks. That should be on the collective Tory gravestone'

How Anya Taylor-Joy cornered the Complex Female Character market
Film

How Anya Taylor-Joy cornered the Complex Female Character market

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