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Our mental health discourse is deeply hypocritical
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The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Confessions of an aging pop queen
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English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Women who play along …
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Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve