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David Barnett What does ‘Love is All Around’ say about the music chart’s descent into irrelevancy?

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Rebecca Bosy Urban beekeeping does more harm to bees than good

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‘The dream of universal liberal democracy is over... now the nightmare begins’
Independent Minds
Will the government listen to Extinction Rebellion?
Jane Fae
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How Game of Thrones achieved world domination
Independent Minds
Why do millions of people tune into the NFL Draft?
James Moore
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Should Britain apologise for Amritsar massacre?
Independent Minds
What can past civil wars tell us about Syria today?
Robert Fisk
Independent Minds
What do we really know about agony aunts?
William Cook
Independent Minds
How women have been wiped from history
Sif Sigmarsdóttir
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‘We’re still judged by the amount of skin on show’
Andy Martin
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Can Tories find their way out of Brexit bedlam?
Damian Green

Pages from history

Pages from history

Will Brexit put us on the brink of another foot-and-mouth epidemic?

In 2001, the outbreak of the disease brought the country to a standstill. As we look back at the horror of those events, Josh Gabbatiss wonders whether lax controls and less money once we leave the EU could pose a threat to British farming

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How farmers were left ‘staring into the abyss’

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Where did foot-and-mouth come from?

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‘If the smell can get out from farms, so can the virus’

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Vietnam’s fight to stop an ‘animal genocide’
World
Making a militant: why Kashmiri residents are taking up arms
Independent Minds
Inside the bizarre world of modern wellness treatments
Christine Manby
Independent Minds
How 1989 became the year that communism collapsed
Mick O'Hare
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How Columbine High School deals with threats 20 years later
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What going into space does to an astronaut’s DNA
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Russian soldiers stand in the way of Georgia's hopes to join Nato
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Last Breath: Real-life drama of the North Sea diver who cheated death
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Brexit is putting Birmingham’s recent renaissance at serious risk
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Trying and failing to blend into Indian life
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How Fidel Castro’s life and rule is a political paradox
Science
What happens when you wake up during surgery
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Andy Martin Virtual instruments: Now anyone can be a composer

Can’t afford a 109-piece ensemble to help compose and perform your latest work? Fear not – a sample library around the corner from Kings Cross has all the cleaned and polished notes you’ll ever need. Andy Martin pays a visit to Spitfire Audio, creators of ‘impossible sounds’

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Esports players are in a league of their own

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How Cosmopolitan’s editor has mastered the digital age

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Michou reigns as the ‘Blue Prince of Montmartre’

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How ‘Game of Thrones’ put Northern Ireland on the filmmaking map
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Bret Easton Ellis doesn’t want you to take him too seriously
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‘Nothing ever changes’: Life after China’s deadly chemical disaster
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If sugar is killing us, why does Britain farm so much of it?
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The rise and fall of the Fleet Street diarist
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How Albert Camus found solace in the absurdity of football
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Raymond Byrd: Seeking justice for the last lynching in Virginia
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The west would do well not to ignore this week’s elections in Ukraine
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Maybe one day Brexit will be funny again... but not yet

Peter Krijgsman – a Canadian-born holder of a Dutch passport and a UK resident since 1965 – was devastated when Britain decided to leave the EU in 2016. Now, even many of those who voted to go are feeling sickened

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What should we do about artists' transgressions?

When an artist is shown to have transgressed, his art too is forever spurned. Or is it? It seems to David Lister that there are bewildering inconsistencies over whom we choose to damn and whom we choose to indulge

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Meet the Drug Hunters: the scientists determined to cure rare diseases
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Mother’s search for truth about US opioid crisis reaches White House
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Solo travel for women is as dangerous as ever
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Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa
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How long-form captions became the latest Instagram trend
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Pages from history: How the 1960s cattle plague shook the UK
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Pages from history: Foot-and-mouth pyres spewed deadly pollution
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Pages from history: Foot-and-mouth was a disaster for British tourism
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Pages from history: Farming life began again with first cattle sale
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Pages from history: ‘Don’t worry, everything’s under control’
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How migrants helped forge modern Birmingham
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Russia, the last empire
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Why do dogs keep leaping into a Scottish gorge?
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A son's journey to discover his mother's complicated past
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Andrew Grice The ‘Brexit PM’ who couldn’t even deliver Brexit

What does Sally Rooney’s Normal People say about sex and society?

The evolution of the ministry of transport