Gary Grimes

Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House

Our writer, a lonely tweenager in rural Ireland, took to his computer and found new galaxies of possibilities – on a Big Brother forum.
Miles Ellingham & Cormac Kehoe

Speaking in Small Tongues

An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
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The Grantham Anthem

Kieran Morris and Fergus Butler-Gallie are both obsessed with the Iron Lady, so they took the train to Lincolnshire for a Thatcher-fuelled day out.
Drew Lustman

The Kids Are Coming up from Behind

The life of an international DJ consists of ceaseless transit and wild-eyed revelry. So how do you keep the beats pumping when parenthood comes calling?
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Nobel Endeavours II

We return to ask some stupid questions of the smartest people on Earth and, once more, our Nobelists oblige.
Clive Martin

Down at Daymer Bay

Siloed away at the far corner of England, Cornwall is one of the few locales that makes this small country feel rather vast, a county of sinister lore and berserk history.

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Miranda Sawyer

Loving the Nineties

Who were the gatekeepers who made the country swing again? Travel back to 1992, and meet the DJs, producers and journalists who made Britpop a global juggernaut.

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