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Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a raucously funny and often moving family saga

4/5 Even when it stretches plausibility – those wigs! – this sprawling immigrant aspiration story is a pleasure to watch

Evening Standard

Whose lunch is it anyway? Match the authors with their midday meal

You can tell a lot about a person from the food they eat. But can you match these seven writers to the things they devour?

The Guardian - UK

‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark times

The best literary comfort reads rebuild our strength so we can face reality, argues novelist Francesca Segal. She picks her ultimate reading list – with help from Nick Hornby, Sathnam Sanghera and Naomi Alderman

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‘Threads is just deathly dull’: have Twitter quitters found what they are looking for on other networks?

There’s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk’s lurch to the far right, but the alternatives have drawbacks too

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ade Adepitan’s cultural highights

The wheelchair basketball star turned TV presenter on swimming with sea cows in Mozambique, a vegan-friendly Nigerian restaurant, and a brilliant podcast about race in America

The Guardian - UK

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

The Guardian - UK

Best books about British history to read in 2024

From ancient Londinium to the complex legacy of Imperialism, read of what lies beneath the surface of our modern existence

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Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera review – the charge sheet against rule Britannia

In this ambitious sequel to Empireland, the journalist travels far and wide to examine the legacy of British imperialism, piecing together an important rebuttal of revisionist narratives

The Guardian - UK

Empireworld review: A conversation-changing look at the British Empire's worldwide legacy

Sathnam Sanghera wants to play a game with you. He’s visiting a school where the boys wear “spotless white shirts” and “dark-blue blazers”, there’s a Latin motto, an official crest, a house system, and a stirring school song that contains the lyrics “always play the game!” Is he somewhere in…

Evening Standard

Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera review – the contradictions of colonialism

A nuanced account of the British empire’s impact on the world that is strikingly alive to the complexities of history

The Guardian - UK

‘I want some light in my life’: eight writers make their new year reading resolutions

Finding fun, getting lost in an epic and taking a first peek at science fiction ... Sathnam Sanghera, Elif Shafak, Sarah Waters and more make their reading resolutions for 2024

The Guardian - UK

The best non-fiction books to read in 2024

From candid memoirs to provocative essay collections, 2024’s forthcoming non-fiction is enticing. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to what you need on your reading pile

The Independent UK

Nonfiction to look out for in 2024

From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year

The Guardian - UK

Today guest editors review – Radio 4 dishes up eggs over uneasy with Goulding, Kureishi and James May

Christmas tradition dictates unqualified celebrities edit the flagship news show for five days, with results as skippable – and occasionally tasty – as festive leftovers

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Abuse has led Sathnam Sanghera to ‘more or less stop’ doing book events in UK

Writer of Empireland, which examined Britain’s imperial past, says culture war-fuelled online trolling and heckling ‘gets to you’

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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

A tale of folklore and magic from Angie Thomas, a hidden land of nature’s wonders and a town full of werewolf children are among the highlights this month

The Guardian - UK

‘Inevitable’ India’s jewels taken by British empire will be returned, says author

Narendra Modi is preparing a campaign to reclaim items in UK museums and held by the royal family, such as the Koh-i-noor diamond

The Independent UK

UK gets first PM of color, but equality fight far from over

The news that Rishi Sunak has become Britain’s first prime minister of color was welcomed by many among Britain's large Indian and South Asian communities

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Londoner’s Diary: Rip-offs of our Trip are shameless, says Steve Coogan

In today’s Diary: Coogan’s ire at copycats / Robert Peston cha-chas away from Strictly / Whitehall WFH wars

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Groundbreaking work on slave economy finally back on UK shelves

Seminal work by Black scholar, which was shunned for decades, finds British publisher

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