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Twenty Five Years On
A quick spot of juvenilia.
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Book Club: The viruses that helped win the Battle of Stalingrad
An extract from Tom Ireland’s The Good Virus: The Mysterious Microbes that Rule Our World, Shape Our Health and Can Save Our Future.
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Getting your fingers dirty
This week: a new dawn for West Yorkshire, and some people who literally drowned in sewage. But first: why don’t the Greens whip?
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The dust settles
This week: the Tories are out at last – but what did the election tell us? Also: on the ontological status of Middlesex; and the world’s fattest parrot.
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A close reading of the lyrics to D:Ream’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’
This will almost certainly be the last day I can ever justify doing this.
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The Portillo moment
This week: which senior Tories are probably about to lose their seats? Also some gaffes, a map and a chart; and, away from the election, some notes on…
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June 2024

But their emails
The general election means the inbox of every journalist in Britain is bursting at the seams.
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Welcome To Wherever You Are
This week: do the French really think Birmingham was boring? And a map of the continuing impact of Vikings. But first, that infernal election.
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Red, dead, redemption?
This week: everything that worries me about the upcoming Labour landslide. Also: an animal that doesn’t throw its young; and a map of where Europe’s…
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None of us are getting any younger
This week: the Tory gaffe machine really kicks into gear; some people on TV who are not the age you think; and some rare good news, as South Wales…
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Landslide
The conditions required for an unprecedented Tory wipeout are all in place.
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Oh, Canada
This week: the Tories continue to nail it; how did the Canadian provinces get their names; and something that isn’t a rabbit.
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