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The Pub Landlord: In Britain's hour of need, Al Murray's...started a band?

The Pub Landlord: In Britain's hour of need, Al Murray's...started a band?

When Al Murray donned his Pub Landlord persona more than 20 years ago, his Little Englander views represented…

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Bros documentary directors say the brothers have set an example for men

Bros documentary directors say the brothers have set an example for men

The best music documentary in years talks to our turbulent times according to Joe Pearlman and David Soutar

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Jim Lynskey is proof why Lewis Capaldi's organ donation song is so important | The Big Issue

Jim Lynskey is proof why Lewis Capaldi's organ donation song is so important | The Big Issue

The 23-year-old is on the waiting list for a new heart because he "has no pulse"

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How to embrace your kids' screen time and build an awesome creative future

How to embrace your kids' screen time and build an awesome creative future

The LEGO Movie taught us a lot. Double-decker couches? They're awesome. Spaceships, UniKittys, barking subwoo…

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Uri Geller tells The Big Issue Brexit 'will be positive' for the UK

Uri Geller tells The Big Issue Brexit 'will be positive' for the UK

Talks between Britain and the EU are in chaos - but one man knows exactly what's going to happen, and he assu…

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Holocaust survivor Hédi Fried: 'Why aren't you thinking with your heart?'

Holocaust survivor Hédi Fried: 'Why aren't you thinking with your heart?'

Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, survivor Hédi Fried talks about warning signs, anti-Semitism in the UK and h…

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How a devout Muslim creationist missionary became an avowed evolutionist 

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By Steven MacKenzie Verified
| Genetic Literacy Project
Steven MacKenzie | Big Issue | August 13, 2025 XLinkedInFacebookRedditBlueskyThreads Credit: Midjourney/ Heenan Guiding us on the epic, mind-expanding journey is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, who has undergone her own radical evolution. As a teenager, she became a creationist missionary and applied to study evolutionary biology at Imperial College London, specifically aiming to disprove the theory … [W]hen it comes to science, there’s a lot of distrust that feels almost tribal.
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Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and The Salt Path author Raynor Winn on homelessness and human spirit

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By Steven MacKenzie Verified
| Flipboard
8 hours ago A woman who travelled across the South West Coastal Path with her terminally ill husband has said a film depicting their journey took her "right back" to those difficult moments. Raynor Winn, a writer who grew up on a farm in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, said a financial dispute meant she had …
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'When you read Maigret you feel good. You make peace with that unsettling aspect of humanity'

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By Anna Funder, Steven MacKenzie Verified, John Bird Verified
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Books As a new adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Maigret starring Gérard Depardieu is released, John Simenon investigates the essence of his father’s creation Maigret. Image: Pascal Chantier Commissaire Jules Maigret of the Police Judiciaire de Paris does not solve crimes, he solves people.
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