Seamus Heaney
A trip to Heaney country
The fiftieth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out is a chance to recognise the importance of place to his poetry
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Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
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Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
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Transported by a restored institution
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Beyond Carmen
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Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
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