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What Do We Have To Lose
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders…
Sep 24
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Book Club: What Shape is History?
An extract from The Cultural Tutor: Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish You’d Learned at School, by Sheehan Quirke.
Sep 20
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The Answer May Surprise You
This week: is the British right approaching a tipping point? Also, some people who lived longer than you thought; and a century of Sheffield just…
Sep 17
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Why is there a universe anyway?
A thematically connected pair of extracts from my new (old) book.
Sep 13
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A nation is a shared illusion – so a government has the power to change it
Also this week: who was the first king of England? And my favourite giant semi-aquatic rat.
Sep 10
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The Eleventh Plague
This week: I am begging my government to just once try to be normal. Also: a new (old) way of dividing Europe, thanks to the Knights of St John; and…
Sep 3
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Borders are Back, Baby: From Trump and Transylvania to Brexit and Bolivia's Navy
Episode 2540: Jonn Elledge's Brief History of the World in 47 Borders
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It’s Just Wrong, and They Should Say So
This week: if you think handing asylum seekers to the Taliban is good politics, you’re a bad person. Also: on the non-existence of purple; and a map of…
Aug 27
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