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Sunday - 1st March, 2026
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Sunday - 22nd February, 2026
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Nowhere to hide

♦ Tanya Gold ♦ David Olusoga ♦ Will Hutton

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Sunday - 15th February, 2026
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Only connect

Matt Weston swooped to gold for Team GB on a sled designed by a engineer with a PhD from Nottingham University (Sport, page 12). But his fellow skeleton sledder, Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych, was not allowed to swoop at all. Heraskevych wore a...

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Sunday - 8th February, 2026
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Old news

Patrick Bateman is “an endless void,” writes Megan Nolan. The antihero of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel American Psycho has become a weird avatar of masculinity. As Susannah Clapp reviews Rupert Goold’s stage adaptation of Ellis’ novel at the Almeida...

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Sunday - 1st February, 2026
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Rewriting the book on cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee, the oncologist and author of The Emperor of All Maladies, is a pioneer of cancer treatment atment and also its master chronicler. er. Writer Chris Power was diagnosed gnosed with a tumour in his abdomen en and, following...

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Sunday - 25th January, 2026
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Image and reality

In 1959, The Observer published the photo that gave Don McCullin his first break. Within a few years he had become a renowned chronicler of violence in Vietnam, in Cyprus and Biafra. Is he happy to be given the title “war photographer”, Andrew Anthony...

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Sunday - 18th January, 2026
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Blackmail over Greenland

Donald Trump puts rising tariffs on the UK and European allies until he gets control of Danish territory

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