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Wealth shared: How would you use £100,000 to make the world a better place?
Philanthropy

Wealth shared: How would you use £100,000 to make the world a better place?

Okay Days by Jenny Mustard review: Romance as though Sally Rooney didn't happen
Okay days book cover
Review

Okay Days by Jenny Mustard review: Romance as though Sally Rooney didn't happen

Bellies by Nicola Dinan review: Compelling and compassionate trans romance
Bellies book cover
review

Bellies by Nicola Dinan review: Compelling and compassionate trans romance

Artists are taking over old supermarkets and derelict buildings. Can they escape artwashing?
A sculpture exhibition attended by lots of people
Urban art

Artists are taking over old supermarkets and derelict buildings. Can they escape artwashing?

How the Homeless World Cup saved a Sacramento footballer's life
Lisa Wrightson and her team mate Tiffany Fraser stand with their arms around each other, wearing Tshirts saying 'made at Sac state'
Homeless World Cup

How the Homeless World Cup saved a Sacramento footballer's life

Homeless World Cup: The home nations heading to Sacramento
A ball hits the back of the net in Mexico City
Homeless World Cup

Homeless World Cup: The home nations heading to Sacramento

Tony Allen: Inventor of Afrobeat was both technically remarkable and irresistibly funky
jazz is dead: drummer Tony Allen
review

Tony Allen: Inventor of Afrobeat was both technically remarkable and irresistibly funky

Is Mission: Impossible on Cruise control?
Hayley-Atwell and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
Review

Is Mission: Impossible on Cruise control?

Homeless World Cup: 20 years of transforming lives through football
Players celebrate with a trophy
Homeless World Cup

Homeless World Cup: 20 years of transforming lives through football

Peter Crouch: 'Being tall was my superpower'
Peter Crouch at Anfield
Letter to my Younger Self

Peter Crouch: 'Being tall was my superpower'

An Elemental problem at the heart of Pixar
Animated illustration of characters Wade, Ember and Ember's mother brook
Analysis

An Elemental problem at the heart of Pixar

Renters pay their landlords' buy-to-let mortgages, so they should get a share of the profits
Renters: A mortgage lender's window advertising buy-to-let products
John Bird

Renters pay their landlords' buy-to-let mortgages, so they should get a share of the profits

As the NHS turns 75, let’s celebrate it – and fight for it  
Sign saying Thank You NHS
Dr Julia Grace Patterson

As the NHS turns 75, let’s celebrate it – and fight for it  

Prince William’s Homewards is bound to attract cynics. Let’s give it a chance
Prince William launches Homewards
Paul McNamee

Prince William’s Homewards is bound to attract cynics. Let’s give it a chance

John Rhys-Davies: 'We learn from our exposure to fear'
John Rhys-Davies in a blue jacket and pink tie
Interview

John Rhys-Davies: 'We learn from our exposure to fear'

Joseph Bologne and Karl Jenkins: Misrepresented composers, centuries apart
Kelvin Harrison Jr as Joseph Bologne playing a violin
classical

Joseph Bologne and Karl Jenkins: Misrepresented composers, centuries apart

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Lákíríboto by Ayodele Olofintuade review: Amidst all the death, we celebrate life
Lakiriboto cover
Fiction

Lákíríboto by Ayodele Olofintuade review: Amidst all the death, we celebrate life

Top 5 novels from Japan, chosen by Nick Bradley
Japanese pagoda
Fiction

Top 5 novels from Japan, chosen by Nick Bradley

The 18th-century astronomer who sparked a modern love story
Illustration of a woman, a zebra and a man with a telescope
behind the book

The 18th-century astronomer who sparked a modern love story

Barrel Children: The kids left behind by Windrush
Four children at a train station
Sam Delaney

Barrel Children: The kids left behind by Windrush

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