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How to master the left-wing brag

Ysenda Maxtone Graham has narrated this article for you to listen to. No one likes a blatant boaster. So, as adults, we learn that if we want to...

yesterday 9

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Counting crows / How to master the left-wing brag

No one likes a blatant boaster. So, as adults, we learn that if we want to boast, we must be subtle about it. The way to show off without being...

thursday 8

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‘If you’re inspired by music, you’ll do better in exams’: Conductor Ralph Allwood on why music matters for children

Here’s some life advice Ralph Allwood gives to the teenagers who attend his week-long residential Rodolfus Choral Courses, held all through the...

thursday 9

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Am I allowed to find Tom Stoppard boring?

10.02.2026 9

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Zero sense / ‘Pray your boilers don’t fail’: the Church of England is in the grip of eco-zealots

22.01.2026 10

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‘Pray your boilers don’t fail’: the Church of England is in the grip of eco-zealots

22.01.2026 8

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Lastminute.non / The rise of the on-the-day party drop-out

18.11.2025 8

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The rise of the on-the-day party drop-out

16.11.2025 10

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Lastminute.non / The rise of the on-the-day party drop-out

14.11.2025 10

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The rise of the on-the-day party drop-out

13.11.2025 10

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Books / Dark secrets of the British housewife

29.09.2025 10

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Books / Dark secrets of the British housewife

29.09.2025 4

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Books / Dark secrets of the British housewife

26.09.2025 4

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Sir Nicholas Coleridge: ‘Girls at Eton? Never say never’

04.09.2025 8

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Menu manifesto / Do we really need state-funded restaurants?

16.07.2025 10

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Dashes to ashes / The depressing rise of ‘direct cremations’

16.06.2025 10

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The depressing rise of ‘direct cremations’

12.06.2025 10

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Oxford’s LTN farce

15.05.2025 5

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Prepare to feel nauseous at this School Dinners exhibition

01.05.2025 6

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Driven out / The war on the London pied-à-terre

31.03.2025 10

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How should today’s pupils be disciplined?

13.03.2025 10

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Exhibitions / The brilliance of Cicely Mary Barker

20.01.2025 10

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The brilliance of Cicely Mary Barker

16.01.2025 6

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Basket case / Is anything still cheap?

14.01.2025 6

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Basket case / Is anything still cheap?

12.01.2025 10

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Basket case / Is anything still cheap?

09.01.2025 9

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Exhibitions / Tirzah Garwood just isn’t as good as her husband

Tirzah Garwood, wife of the more famous Eric Ravilious, is having a well-deserved moment in the sun, benefiting from this era of equality in which...

30.12.2024 2

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Books / The dreadful fate of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters

‘Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her engagement to the...

28.12.2024 5

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Where do you stand on ‘I was sat’?

Perhaps because more and more BBC radio programmes are being broadcast from Salford, the whole of Britain is getting used to hearing multiple uses...

20.12.2024 4

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Books / ‘Carried away by those Russians’ – the dreadful fate of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters

‘Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her engagement to the...

16.12.2024 8

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Books / ‘Carried away by those Russians’ – the dreadful fate of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters

‘Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her engagement to the...

16.12.2024 5

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham