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The opioid crisis and erosion of trust

The Sackler name is more often associated with philanthropy and lavish donations in the arts and...

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Art - plunder, power and prestige

The looting of art in war time is nothing new, but Napoleon took it to new heights: demanding of...

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Personal faith and the Church

What it means to be a black Christian woman in the UK is at the heart of Chine McDonald’s new...

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What if the Incas had colonised Europe?

The French writer Laurent Binet’s new book Civilisations is a flight of fancy re-imagining the...

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Nuclear destruction

In 1962 the world teetered on the edge of nuclear destruction as the Presidents of the USA and...

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Defining mental illness

Reports of a mental health epidemic among young people both leading up to and during the pandemic...

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Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China

Tom Tugendhat MP is the Conservative chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He tells Andrew Marr...

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Newton: science and worldly riches

Edward St Aubyn is the award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose series. His new novel, Double...

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Rights and responsibilities

The journalist Matthew d’Ancona attacks the torpor and complacency which has come to dominate the...

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Understanding Melancholy

400 years ago Robert Burton produced his labyrinthine masterpiece, The Anatomy of Melancholy – a...

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Monsters of the deep

The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on Earth. In The Brilliant Abyss the marine biologist...

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Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles

Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry-Londonderry at the height of the Troubles, to a Catholic...

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Living online and IRL

What happens when real life collides with your digital existence – the writer and ‘Poet Laureate...

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Empire and class, shaping Britain

Britain is a direct product of its imperial past. So argues the writer Sathnam Sanghera in his...

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The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.

He was born into abject poverty in Czechoslovakia, fought for the British and was decorated for...

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Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics

Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics at University College London, tells Amol Rajan it’s...

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Francis Bacon revealed

Francis Bacon is one of Britain’s greatest twentieth century artists – a painter who captured and...

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Scotland and the Union

The Acts of Union 1707 brought together England and Scotland, ‘United into One Kingdom by the...

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Nicholas Hytner

2020 has been disastrous for the arts in Britain and many people have lost their jobs as Covid-19...

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Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state

As the 850th anniversary of the murder of Thomas Becket approaches Andrew Marr explores the...

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