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What follows the abolition of fixed-term parliaments?
Will the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?
Dreams of dystopia past
At the end of a dismal year, consider the cult dystopias of the optimistic 1990s.
Was test and trace doomed to fail?
If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts
It’s all a conspiracy
It’s not fair that Remain lost or that Trump won, once. These things are unconscionable and therefore diabolical
The evolution of Nick Cave
The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons
The knives come out for Ampleforth and its monks
The DfE has banned new admissions to Ampleforth following a child abuse scandal. But this former pupil remains thankful to the school’s Benedictine monks
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
Surviving the straits of hell
An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
Getting a television changed my life
Living without a TV had several notable side-effects: we’d read more, and sometimes, even have conversations