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  • Remember me?

    Calling up long-lost friends, especially during a pandemic, is a pastime with its perils for Laurie Taylor.

  • Beauty of the beat

    It has been a bad time for clubbing. But shut away at home, DJs have returned to dance music’s political roots.

  • Book review: Between Light and Storm

    Examining the complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals, Esther Woolfson asks us to re-evaluate our complicity.

  • Our national need for grief

    In a year without normal funerals, Samira Ahmed writes about the invisible crowds of the bereaved and grieving.

  • Saying goodbye to the dead

    In our increasingly non-religious society, we are inventing new ways to honour the dead and mark their passing.

  • Saints alive!

    As a schoolboy, Laurie Taylor was enjoined to pray for a miracle. Unfortunately, his "success" was mired by discovering David Hume.

  • How to fix the internet w/ Chris Bail

    The head of the Polarization Lab gives us his cutting-edge insights on how to tackle tribalism online – and they're not what you might think.

  • Talking to ourselves

    Inner voices shape human life. But can our interior experiences ever be the subject of scientific study?

  • Book review: Dostoevsky in Love

    A credible and sensitive portrait of the Russian novelist's deepest feelings and inner demons, told through the three great relationships of his life.

  • Writing and Recovery, w/ Michael Rosen

    The poet and broadcaster reflects on the value of life and the "many different kinds of love" he experienced after Covid-19 and a brush with death.