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I’ve been an arachnophobe my whole life. I can’t remember a time when videos of spiders, or even photos or…

The Pell case is a contemporary Australian version of the infamous Dreyfus case in 19th century France and may even…

When it comes to education, I’m in two minds, maybe three. I was sent to private schools, including, for my…

The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces has rendered what might otherwise have seemed a fairly niche study of a…

Imagine that all the frequencies nature affords were laid out on an extended piano keyboard. Never mind that some waves…

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Emilie Pine writes about the big things and the little things: friendship, love, fertility, grief; waking, showering, catching the bus.…

One could compile a fat anthology of tributes to Marcel Duchamp’s charm – especially what one friend called the artist’s…

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Royal gossip is largely invented, says Philip Hensher – but Tina Brown repeats it regardless

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The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams is a sociology essay written in 1938 about a prickly tyrant, Miss Moffat,…

To be a Wagnerite is to enter the theatre in a state of paranoia. Mainstream culture has decided that Wagner…

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The current prominence of the word ‘gaffe’ is due to the Gaffe Meister himself – Joe Biden. But on investigation…

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Eighteen months ago, I wrote a column for this magazine saying I regretted having been such a Boris enthusiast for…

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In Competition No. 3246, you were invited to submit a poem in the style of the poet of your choice…

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