Weaponise!
Sex, the NHS, Brexit – all have been described as ‘weaponised’. What is the effect when language is constantly on a war footing?
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Death of a party
The turf wars go on, while the leadership appears bafflingly unable to address the national post-Brexit turmoil
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The best wines for £10
Five modestly priced bottles to try
A former supermarket boss says the £10 bottle hits the sweet spot where quality and price meet. Our expert recommends five wines to get
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Aung San Suu Kyi: failed expectations
How power crushed Myanmar’s hope
A year after her party swept to power, the Nobel laureate faces questions over her leadership and silence on persecution
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Deep impact
A clash of orcas and sperm whales
Off the coast of Sri Lanka, Philip Hoare came face to face with eight hunting orcas who had no fear of the 100-strong sperm whale pod
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Beyond the blade
Teenage knife crime is a tabloid obsession, blamed on feral youth running riot in Britain’s cities. The reality is much more complex
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My life with Oliver Sacks
Bill Hayes recalls the neurologist’s unworldly charm, his remarkable stay with Björk in Iceland, and the dignity of Sacks’s final weeks
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Legs-it
When the Mail talks about ‘pins’
The language used in the newspaper’s coverage of Theresa May and Nichola Sturgeon attempts to reduce women to objects
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The Brexit heartlands
‘I’ve made a terrible mistake’
Havering saw one of the biggest leave votes in Britain last June. We met the people behind the politics in Romford, the borough’s biggest town
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