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Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms

There are more refugees in the world today than at any other point in history. The United Nations estimates that there are now more than 120 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. That is one in every 69 people on Earth. Some 73% of this population is hosted in…

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Virgin by Lorde is a layered work of performance art – her smartest references explained

With her latest album, Virgin, Lorde is stretching the concept of the virgin beyond the common definition. Some may consider the album’s title and its cover art – an X-ray of Lorde’s pelvis showing an IUD – to be contradictory.

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Why white clothing is a requirement at Wimbledon

When Carlos Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner at the Roland Garros men’s final on June 8 2025, in what is already seen as a classic match, there was some comment on the sartorial choices of the two players.

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Radical listening: two big ideas and six core skills that could help you connect more deeply with others

Even though we live in a constantly connected world, more people feel lonely than ever before. According to public polling company Gallup, nearly a quarter of the world’s population reports feeling lonely.

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Sixteenth-century tennis was a dangerous sport played with balls covered in wool

In 1570, a Frenchman was arrested for smuggling clandestine correspondence between France and England. A passing comment in his interrogation document reveals that he also happened to be carrying a leather bag “in which there were three or four dozen balls of wool for playing tennis”.

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Survey shows support for electoral reform now at 60% – so could it happen?

Public support for reforming the UK’s first past the post electoral system has risen markedly of late. So is there any serious chance that such reform could actually happen?

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Labour’s disability cuts rebellion: a former government whip asks, how did Keir Starmer not see this coming?

The government has promised to make major concessions to its universal credit and personal independence payment bill after a large-scale and very public rebellion by Labour MPs threatened to derail a vote due on July 1.

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Why evolution can explain human testicle size but not our unique chins

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our history.

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Trump’s f-bomb: a psychologist explains why the president makes fast and furious statements

Donald Trump’s latest forthright outburst was made as part of his attempts to create a peace deal with Iran and Israel. “I’m not happy with Israel,” he told reporters on June 24. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know…

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I’ve studied faiths and cultures around the world. Here’s how finance can be made more inclusive and sustainable

Financial products are becoming increasingly sophisticated – as are the frauds associated with things like crypto, hacking and digital robbery. Many people are already overwhelmed by financial matters, and being unable to manage money can lead to mental health problems.

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Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations

Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely originates from these plantations. One frequent target of this criticism has been the Drax family of Dorset, which is headed by Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who was the Conservative MP…

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Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning

George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on the island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, he went on a fishing trip with his young son, nephew and niece.

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Jaws at 50: a cinematic masterpiece – and an incredible piece of propaganda

Jaws turns 50 on June 20. Last year, Quentin Tarantino called Stephen Spielberg’s film “possibly the greatest movie ever made”. Though he was quick to add that it isn’t the best film in terms of script, cinematography or acting, he was convinced that its overall quality as a movie remains…

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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women’s prize – an expertly woven tale of personal crises and national horror

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden has won the 2025 Women’s prize. It revisits a dark, under-explored chapter of Dutch history. It asks what happened to all the possessions that Jews who were forced to flee or were taken to camps during the second world war had to leave…

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Alexander Armstrong: ‘One of the real pleasures of parenthood is reading to your children’

The presenter and children’s author tells Lisa Salmon how important it is to inspire a love of reading in kids, and suggests how to do it.

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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena

"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally

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Bookshop.org launches secondhand book buy-back scheme that will rival Amazon

Books can be exchanged for credit in the ground-breaking new scheme

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Bookshop.org launches buy-back scheme for secondhand books

Bookloop will allow customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the online retailer’s website, with accumulated royalties being distributed to authors

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Online bookshop hits £3 million for independent sellers

The bookshop’s next goal is to increase online sales for the independent sellers five-fold by 2028.

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TikTok to sell books directly to users via marketplace

To further capitalise on the popularity of BookTok the social media giant will let users purchase titles through partnerships with publishers and retailers

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