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Euro 2024: Roy Keane on screen is more watchable than the football
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Euro 2024: Roy Keane on screen is more watchable than the football

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We can all agree politics isn't much of a laugh. Here's how to rediscover fun after the election

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Euro 2024 shows why Germany is much more than beer, bratwurst and lederhosen

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is an eerie prediction of our surveillance age
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Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is an eerie prediction of our surveillance age

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Don't believe the headlines: Here's 22 facts that prove migration benefits all of us
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Don't believe the headlines: Here's 22 facts that prove migration benefits all of us

A Good Deliverance by Toby Clements – rollicking tales of the Hundred Years' War
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A Good Deliverance by Toby Clements – rollicking tales of the Hundred Years' War

Elmo, Binface and a fish finger: A colourful history of novelty political candidates taking on the elite
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Elmo, Binface and a fish finger: A colourful history of novelty political candidates taking on the elite

No, it isn't middle-class to vote for third-party or independent candidates in the general election
Kasmira Kincaid

No, it isn't middle-class to vote for third-party or independent candidates in the general election

Opinion polls are an important cog in our democracy – but the only poll that counts is election day
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Jane Frost

Opinion polls are an important cog in our democracy – but the only poll that counts is election day

Politics needs saving. And it's going to have to be us who do it
John Bird

Politics needs saving. And it's going to have to be us who do it

The inside story of how Tony Blair's New Labour all-but ended rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

The inside story of how Tony Blair's New Labour all-but ended rough sleeping

Count Binface: 'The British people will be watching you, Keir Starmer'
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Count Binface: 'The British people will be watching you, Keir Starmer'

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Who is composer Fanny Mendelssohn? The musical sister finally being given her due

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Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin review – Parisian feminism through the ages

Glastonbury 2024 is over, but its magic will take longer to fade
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Glastonbury 2024 is over, but its magic will take longer to fade

Letters: DWP benefit reforms are fuelled by decades of disability hate
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Letters: DWP benefit reforms are fuelled by decades of disability hate

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