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How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure
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Books

How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure

If you want to understand mysterious world of teenagers, try listening to them
A teenager blowing vape smoke
Rachel Burden

If you want to understand mysterious world of teenagers, try listening to them

From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who: How Russell T Davies gave voice to a generation of queer people
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TV

From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who: How Russell T Davies gave voice to a generation of queer people

Adults forced to move back in with parents amid soaring rents and crippling cost of living crisis
A man with his two daughters, the middle one is wearing graduate robes
Housing

Adults forced to move back in with parents amid soaring rents and crippling cost of living crisis

Bex Burch: Jazz musician compares building her own xylophone with Ant-Man in the Quantum Realm
Bex Burch with a xylophone
Jazz

Bex Burch: Jazz musician compares building her own xylophone with Ant-Man in the Quantum Realm

How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class
A city square filled with bar tables
Urban design

How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class

Life in the UK test: How many of us would pass the British citizenship test?
A hand holding a British passport
Steven MacKenzie

Life in the UK test: How many of us would pass the British citizenship test?

Infected blood scandal victims still fighting for justice four decades on – but time is running out
Illustration of a hypodermic needle
Fight for justice

Infected blood scandal victims still fighting for justice four decades on – but time is running out

Single and stuck: Cost of living crisis forcing exes to live together after breaking up
Housing

Single and stuck: Cost of living crisis forcing exes to live together after breaking up

European cafe culture and green, public spaces: A look at the not-too-distant future of UK cities
Skyline illustration
Town planning

European cafe culture and green, public spaces: A look at the not-too-distant future of UK cities

It's a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic
Nathaniel J Hall close up
Theatre

It's a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic

Tories and Labour need to stop slinging mud and urgently commit to a new Ministry of Poverty
A blue and red manifesto
John Bird

Tories and Labour need to stop slinging mud and urgently commit to a new Ministry of Poverty

The Last Siren: This dementia-friendly night at the opera is making arts more inclusive
The audience at the dementia-friendly opera
Opera

The Last Siren: This dementia-friendly night at the opera is making arts more inclusive

Are big-budget horror movies becoming more conservative?
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (from left) Angela Fielding (Lidya Jewett) and Katherine (Olivia Marcum)
Horror

Are big-budget horror movies becoming more conservative?

Boiling Point review – five-star TV worth the strain
Stephen Graham in a dressing gown with a can of beer
Lucy Sweet

Boiling Point review – five-star TV worth the strain

How cutting-edge pianist Zubin Kanga is pushing classical music into the future
Zubin Kanga in blue jacket and gloves under a pink light
Classical music

How cutting-edge pianist Zubin Kanga is pushing classical music into the future

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The Pole review – JM Coetzee at his most beguiling
The Pole book cover
Books

The Pole review – JM Coetzee at his most beguiling

Top 5 books about Winston Churchill, selected by historian David Reynolds
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Books

Top 5 books about Winston Churchill, selected by historian David Reynolds

BlackBerry review – the ruthlessness and farce of big business
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Film

BlackBerry review – the ruthlessness and farce of big business

How 'great wealth transfer' from baby boomers to millennials will shape our planet's future
Finance

How 'great wealth transfer' from baby boomers to millennials will shape our planet's future

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