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Chas Newkey-Burden

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Package deal / The thrill of tracking parcels

Package deal / The thrill of tracking parcels
monday 20

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Chas Newkey-Burden

Social media / How I made Facebook nice again

05.07.2025 9

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Why Oasis is like Reform

04.07.2025 10

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The triumph of Noel Edmonds

20.06.2025 20

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David Beckham deserves his knighthood

14.06.2025 5

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What is the point of the RSPCA?

13.06.2025 8

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Are vegetarians really hungry for power?

09.06.2025 7

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Television / Those remaking Threads mustn’t soften the horror

04.06.2025 10

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Television / Those remaking Threads mustn’t soften the horror

01.06.2025 20

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Why shouldn’t vegans be catered for in an apocalypse?

31.05.2025 10

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Those remaking Threads mustn’t soften the horror

29.05.2025 9

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We need more animal cruelty on TV

28.05.2025 10

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Gary Lineker isn’t the only quiet man of football to find his voice

26.05.2025 10

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Seaside peril / In defence of seagulls

24.05.2025 4

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In defence of seagulls

24.05.2025 3

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Long live David Attenborough

08.05.2025 10

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Is anyone actually enjoying this heatwave?

01.05.2025 20

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The pain and paranoia of the London Marathon

27.04.2025 10

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Easter tat / When did greeting cards become so rubbish?

19.04.2025 10

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When did greeting cards become so rubbish?

19.04.2025 10

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In defence of rats

15.04.2025 8

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Is Britain really a nation of dog lovers?

10.04.2025 6

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TV / Screening Netflix’s Adolescence in schools is a mistake

01.04.2025 10

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Am I the only one who misses lockdown?

23.03.2025 20

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Why are we only outraged when a baby wombat is snatched?

14.03.2025 5

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Fight or flight / The 'airport theory' is the worst TikTok trend yet

11.03.2025 10

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Vegans shouldn’t be afraid of condemning Halal slaughter

07.03.2025 10

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Why are we such swine to pigs?

We all know the nursery rhyme about “this little piggy”: one little piggy went to market, one little piggy stayed home and so on. A modern rewrite...

05.03.2025 10

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Fishy business / Is ‘catch and release’ fishing really ethical?

25.02.2025 20

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A crackdown on lying in politics could backfire

20.02.2025 20

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Blame vegans for the ‘anti-vegan backlash’

11.02.2025 9

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Soap operas have lost the plot

07.02.2025 10

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In defence of Slough

02.02.2025 20

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Hidden gem / In defence of Slough

01.02.2025 20

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The truth about ‘stupid’ footballers

22.01.2025 7

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It’s a grind / Starbucks and the hell of the modern café

15.01.2025 20

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What’s wrong with being a judgemental vegan?

Veganuary is with us again, the annual reminder that veganism is now mainstream. But us steak-dodgers still face a fair bit of curiosity and...

04.01.2025 9

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Who’d want to survive a nuclear war?

The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East keep raging, Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold required for Moscow to nuke Europe and Donald...

29.12.2024 30

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The cruelty of horse racing is becoming impossible to ignore

After three horses died at Cheltenham on Sunday, the reaction was depressingly predictable. The cameras cut away and the horse racing industry...

19.11.2024 10

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Don’t blame fireworks for the death of the baby panda – blame zoos

Fireworks cause such misery for animals that future generations surely won’t believe we ever used them. It’s well known that fireworks scare pets...

16.11.2024 5

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Calm down, most cows aren’t ‘killers’

There must be carnage in the countryside. That’s the only explanation for a stampede of anxious headlines about the danger of cows. ‘Are these the...

22.09.2024 20

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