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Mike Stuchbery argues that we need to take a salutary walk in the shadow our our ancestors to reconnect with their hopes and fears

Chris Sullivan celebrates the gritty revisionism of the modern Western, but wonders whether Bad Smells alone are Good Enough

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The complicated love-hate relationship British immigrants from former colonies have with the Empire cannot be ignored if lessons are to be learned in post-Brexit Britain.

The Count of the Saxon Shore recalls how an aggressive Leave Campaign led to de-industrialisation and porous borders

The Count of the Saxon Shore continues his saga of the First Great Brexit - from the Roman Empire - and fostered the forerunners of Nigel Farage

What are the consequences of handing over life and death decisions to a machine in combat, even with tokenistic human oversight?

Willem Dafoe's performance as Van Gogh is "beyond brilliant" says Chris Sullivan, who ponders whether creativity is always close to madness.

Digital platforms greed and lack of support for music artists knows no boundaries and remains suspiciously concealed from the general public…

John Cleese wonders why Trump supporters are not terrified by his ramblings. And then the awful truth dawns...

Mike Stuchbery takes a brief holiday from the tensions of the here and now to wonder why all those lives of the saints tend to end quite badly.

The tolerance and acceptable of 1980s Britain is to be admired far more than Dallas, big shoulder pads and synth pop, says Chris Sullivan.

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Realising the myriad of ways that science is intimately connected with human life took me some time. It dawned on me slowly as I experienced homelessness, Himalayan mountaineering, war zones, Delhi slums, gender transitioning and sex work.

The UK, according to the latest polling, is now chiefly a Remain country. At the opposite end of Brexit spectrum, this week a handful of prominent Leavers performed a swift volte-face and decided to throw their full support behind Prime Minister Theresa May’s contentious Brexit deal.

Most mornings I’m possessed by the same thought. As I board my train in the country and end my journey on a canal towpath, it strikes me that each mile of track, each yard of path was laid by hand a century and a half ago, the work of men whose names were never recorded.

Want to forget the world isn’t a giant flaming dumpster fire for a few days? Then fall into this storybook European city

John Mitchinson turns his curious eye towards the Brave New World of Epigenetics - what is ‘On’ rather than ‘In’ our Genes