Silver linings
Silver linings Nigella Vigoroso-Heck looks forward to perfection “So. Here we are. The end of term. I have been truly humbled by the amount of work that you have put …
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In black and white
I benefit from multiple privileges. White? Tick. Male? Tick. Posh? Tick and so on. In fact the world is largely designed by people like me for people like me. My …
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Pot, porn and praise the Lord
People find new outlets when lockdown comes. I want to make clear that we do not live in a care home, thank God. It is a retirement apartment complex. People …
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Banking off road
Don’t consult the map while making a handbrake turn. What an unreality of a year so far. Society has done a handbrake turn and we are hurtling in an unmapped …
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Covid confusion: going viral
Frances Coppola shows where the truth lies. If there is one industry that has flourished under coronavirus, it is the statistics industry. Never have so many statistics been produced, charted, …
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The class divide
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck asks: if Eton can do it why can’t my local comp? It has been 14 weeks since we closed the school gates. In that time I have: conducted …
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The Mint is listening to… Nikita Asnani 19, Second year Economics
Day one, year one: I was a girl with black glasses and blue jeans, sitting in the second row, straining my neck to get a good view of the slides …
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Mystically speaking
John Perkins was a self-confessed economic hit man. He had his damascene conversion in the rainforests of the Amazon in conversation with shamans. As a result he has written extensively …
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Isolated incidents
Thomas attempts to go viral as mass infection brings great opportunities. I am isolating myself. There’s nothing wrong with me, or Thomas, but others around us are dropping like flies. But, …
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Accentuate the positive
It all started with hope. Now we have viral infection. But there is still hope. I came up with “hope” as the theme for this issue in the autumn. I was …
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