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Progressives must reclaim England’s national story
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Angus Reid's new documentary "A week in the Sun" shines light on Cuba's sweeping new rights for women and queer people
The view from a school in a Reform-led council
As a teacher, I encourage children to question the prejudices that some of them are taught at home
Ask Janet: Should I keep confronting my brother about his racist politics?
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Fleeing home again
The border war between Pakistan and Afghanistan is supposedly about terrorism, but it’s civilians like me who are suffering
How to block the far right from power
We'll need to make broad and uncomfortable coalitions – and that's just the start
Away with the fairies
A Richard Dadd retrospective reveals the artist's prolific work inside the walls of Bedlam and Broadmoor
Inside Mamdani’s sanctuary city
In New York, I found a sweltering city pushing back against Trump and his brutish ICE agents
JD Vance’s accidentally hilarious memoir
The vice president displays neither self-awareness nor an understanding of irony in this strange book
The money behind the ‘anti-woke Davos’
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship has become a forum for Christian nationalism in London
“The Bride!” is a feminist fraud
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" has been lauded as a feminist triumph. That's not what it looked like to me
In Northern Ireland, we’re seeing old patterns of violence repeated
The medium might be new, but the online far right is exploiting the same structures that have sustained violence for generations
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