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Music can heal us - but it doesn't need to have a purpose
A string of books and a new radio station beg the question: cant we just listen to music for music's sake?
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Trump's attack on Harvard won't foster more diversity of debate
Few people want to live in an echo chamber.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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A simple goodbye for a humble pontiff for the people
Pope Francis died of a stroke and subsequent heart failure, the Vatican said in a statement, revealing that the pontiff had requested to be buried in a simple, unadorned tomb.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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'A sigh of relief' Ruling allows UK politicians to dodge tricky questions
For all the negative stereotypes, many politicians are thoughtful, diligent, and caring.
2 min |
April 25, 2025
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Reversal of fortune
Is it Mark Carney's election to lose? Earlier in the year, the Liberal party was in the doldrums, then Donald Trump made a move on Canadian sovereignty
5 min |
April 25, 2025
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Turner:simply the best?
The revered painter conjured scenes of gods and legends, but his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like no other artist
6 min |
April 25, 2025
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Rise and shine: the alternative secrets to a perfect breakfast
Breakfast normally means porridge, but what alternatives are there?
2 min |
April 25, 2025
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Our dog is on heat - so why am I the one turning red?
It is mid-afternoon - post-lunch but safely before the schools let out - and I am walking the dog in the direction of what my wife and I now call the Triangle parks.
2 min |
April 25, 2025
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False witness Huge rise in fake political content media on social as election nears
More than a quarter of Canadians have been exposed to fake political content on social media that is \"more sophisticated and more politically polarising\", researchers have found, warning that platforms must increase protections amid a \"dramatic acceleration\" of online disinformation in the final weeks of the federal election campaign.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Cowboys get the blues over beef
Once hailed as frontier heroes, ranchers are now at odds with climate and culture change
5 min |
April 25, 2025
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Face off What is likely to happen at the polls?
In early January, Justin Trudeau announced a decision that many in his party had long hoped for: he was resigning after nearly a decade as Canada's prime minister.
2 min |
April 25, 2025
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The outsider His focus was on justice but he failed to heal deep divisions
Just three days before he was admitted to hospital for bronchitis in February, Pope Francis delivered a strongly worded message to the US about Donald Trump's attitude to migrants.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Allergen alert Factors behind our increasingly deadly hay fever seasons
Higher temperatures, pollution and invasive species are being linked to more severe pollen seasons around the world-though the effects are complex and the causes not yet fully understood
5 min |
April 25, 2025
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Hard copy Will Dutton's admiration for Trump backfire?
Peter Dutton, the man who would be prime minister of Australia, is one of the hard men of the country’s politics.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Smell the coffee: why my flat white is a tiny hit of joy in a dark world
Most of us, confronted with daily forecasts of recession and economic downturn, have an emotional response that expresses itself in a range of behaviours.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Are we alone? Discovery on planet K2-18b brings alien life closer to reality
Towards the end of his life, the cosmologist Stephen Hawking was asked about the odds of finding intelligent alien life in the next two decades. “The probability is low,” he declared in 2016, and took a pause before adding: “Probably.”
2 min |
April 25, 2025
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Can I kick it?...
Fancy joining the growing movement to boycott American goods? Jeremy Ettinghausen finds it's much harder than you think as he sets out to banish the US from his life Portraits
10 min |
April 25, 2025
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Pope Francis, a radical who tried to be a progressive influence and force for good
Defying doctors' orders to rest after his battle with double pneumonia, a weak Pope Francis last week visited Rome's Regina Coeli prison, where he blew kisses towards inmates and spent half an hour in discussion with some of those incarcerated.
2 min |
April 25, 2025
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Welcome clarity on the contested issue of women's rights
So, after all that, it turns out that under the Equality Act, a woman is an adult human female.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Miliband in attack on Farage and Tories' net zero 'lies'
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, last weekend tore into Nigel Farage and the Tories for peddling dangerous “nonsense and lies” by suggesting the UK’s net zero target is responsible for destroying Britain’s businesses, including its steel industry.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Plenty of horns The settlements where rhinoceros roam the streets
I can't talk now, I'm in hospital,\" Ram Kumar Aryal said when he picked up the phone.
4 min |
April 25, 2025
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Replacing hardware and software is going to be painful, costly and complicated
And in further fiscal frustration, if your pension plan is anything like mine, it is likely to hold a mixture of investments including UK, European and US stocks. I asked the very sensible person who administers my pension whether I could get rid of my US investments and was told it is possible, “although probably rather unwise as divesting completely from US holdings reduces geographic diversification, which could impact risk-adjusted returns”.
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April 25, 2025
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Noise ban pulls plug on Leicester Square's street artists
Tommi has been working as a living statue for 20 years, endeavouring to stay rooted to the spot amid hailstones, loose dogs and teasing teenagers.
3 min |
April 25, 2025
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Gaby Hinsliff
Keir Starmer praised Adolescence. But what did he learn from it?
3 min |
March 28, 2025
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Andy Beckett
It's hard to imagine a return to the old relationship with the US
4 min |
March 28, 2025
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A PART OF ME DID DIE IN ITALY'
Ten years ago, Amanda Knox was finally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. But is she really free? She talks to Simon Hattenstone about howreturning to her old life felt like entering anew kind of prison’
10+ min |
March 28, 2025
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From London to Lviv
At each stop on a 1,600km trip, bewildered Europeans are grappling with the unsettling realities of Donald Trump's new world order
10+ min |
March 28, 2025
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Gauguin seen in a new light
The French artist has been tarred as a colonialist who gave syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But author Sue Prideaux has made discoveries that challenge this picture
6 min |
March 28, 2025
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Charlotte Higgins
Trump's obsession with the arts is part of the authoritarian project
3 min |
March 28, 2025
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Grain spotting
From earthquake-defying joints that support a temple to delicate puzzle boxes, an exhibition shows off the myriad possibilities of the art of Japanese carpentry
3 min |