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The Final Finkelvitch
David Aaronovitch has left The Times after nearly 18 years at the paper, and after three years on Stories of Our Times.
As well as presenting this po…
2 years, 10 months ago
Investigation: The hidden schools of Stamford Hill
In the strictly isolated Hasidic community of North London, thousands of boys reach the age of 16 without being able to read or speak much English. T…
2 years, 10 months ago
Could Britain lose the first grand portrait of a person of colour?
One of Britain's most important paintings of a non-white subject could leave the UK forever next week as the deadline approaches to submit an offer t…
2 years, 10 months ago
What Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal actually means
On Monday the prime minister revealed his big Brexit deal with the European Union, which aims to avoid a hard border across the island of Ireland and…
2 years, 10 months ago
'Russian warship, go f*** yourself!’ What really happened on Snake Island?
On the first day of the war in Ukraine, a story emerged of a David and Goliath face-off in the Black Sea, when the Ukrainian soldiers on a small, des…
2 years, 10 months ago
Can the Oscars lobbying machine ever be fair?
This week the final round of voting opens for the 95th Academy Awards – and the Oscars are embroiled in a row about diversity again. The latest contr…
2 years, 10 months ago
Borscht, books and ballet: The battle for Ukraine's identity
In the days before he invaded Ukraine, President Putin used a televised address to attack the country’s sense of nationhood and deny its right to exi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Haiti: A failed state?
Kidnap, rape, riots and murder have become a part of everyday life in Haiti. Still reeling from successive natural disasters, a cholera epidemic and …
2 years, 10 months ago
Artificial intelligence: Bright new future or the end of humanity?
We have entered what many experts are now describing as a golden age of AI. If machines could be our surgeons, our judges and our artists, what would…
2 years, 10 months ago
The case for a four-day working week
After a six-month trial, the results of the world’s biggest four-day working week pilot have been published. It found there was no hit to productivit…
2 years, 10 months ago