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The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains