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Queer revolution in Cuba?
Angus Reid's new documentary "A week in the Sun" shines light on Cuba's sweeping new rights for women and queer people
The view from a school in a Reform-led council
As a teacher, I encourage children to question the hate that some of them are taught at home
Fleeing home again
The border war between Pakistan and Afghanistan is supposedly about terrorism, but it’s civilians like me who are suffering
How to block the far right from power
We'll need to make broad and uncomfortable coalitions – and that's just the start
Away with the fairies
A Richard Dadd retrospective reveals the artist's prolific work inside the walls of Bedlam and Broadmoor
Inside Mamdani’s sanctuary city
In New York, I found a sweltering city pushing back against Trump and his brutish ICE agents
JD Vance’s accidentally hilarious memoir
The vice president displays neither self-awareness nor an understanding of irony in this strange book
The money behind the ‘anti-woke Davos’
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship has become a forum for Christian nationalism in London
“The Bride!” is a feminist fraud
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" has been lauded as a feminist triumph. That's not what it looked like to me
In Northern Ireland, we’re seeing old patterns of violence repeated
The medium might be new, but the online far right is exploiting the same structures that have sustained violence for generations
Is Christian nationalism a threat to the UK?
The former Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of Humanists UK discuss the growing influence of religious nationalism
The Odyssey we deserve
Christopher Nolan delivers a frighteningly relevant epic on a civilisation ripping itself apart
Stewart Lee: Why we need humour to beat the populist right
Voters are looking for entertainers, but where do we draw the line?
Book review: City Like Water
Dorothy Tse's latest novella contains careful clues to real events in Hong Kong’s recent past
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