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How much does where you grow up shape your chances?

Our new tool lets you compare postcodes across education, health and poverty – and see the childhood lottery mapped across the country.
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The Israeli satirist on a one-man mission to stop the far right ‘brainwashing’ teenagers

Comedian Lior Schleien is touring Israel’s schools to challenge pupils in thrall to the Netanyahu government’s ‘disastrous’ extremism

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‘Free Israel’ liberals fear boycotts will only strengthen Netanyahu

Israeli comedian Lior Schleien has a message for the international community: millions of us want to live in peace in the Middle East, and global isolation isn’t helping

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‘Throwing spaghetti at the wall’: Panicking Republicans launch barrage of personal attacks

Facing potential defeat in the US midterms, billionaire donors fund huge campaigns accusing Democrats of lying, crossdressing and extremism

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Ilford Boy – coming out in a blaze of glorious one-liners

Danny Lee Wynter’s play about a queer mixed-race teenager in 1990s east London is witty and whistlingly quick

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Those rumours of the death of programmers? Greatly exaggerated

AI agents may be solving the tricky puzzles software engineers used to love, but human understanding of coding is still essential

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Nobody Wants This – over the hot rabbi? Fall in love with the hot sister instead

Justine Lupe excels in season three of the LA-set sitcom, which is as watchable as ever despite its sugary excesses. Plus, HBO Max’s The Audacity

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Poetry books of the month: bullets and blooms

Ian McMillan’s winningly absurdist Red River Valley goes to war with Wordsworth’s daffodils, while Jason B Crawford tackles violence and injustice in his urgent second collection YEET!

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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Wildwood, Clayface, Possible Love and more

A stop-motion fantasy epic from the creators of Coraline is an extraordinary achievement. Plus, can watch-through-your-fingers body horror Clayface revive the ailing comic book genre?

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We may have passed peak manosphere. But what’s next for men?

The decline of the hyper-masculine and misogynistic movement led by Andrew Tate frees the male character to reinvent itself

✍️ Geoff Dyer
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From father to son: what our dads taught us

Eight writers share the life lessons they learned from the men who raised them

✍️ Luke Kennard, Colin Grant, Michael Rosen, Raymond Antrobus, Andrew Anthony, Will Harris, Mark Haddon, Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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How Robert Ryman became the master of white

The Barbican’s exhilarating retrospective explodes the myth that the American artist painted only plain canvases – and reveals the many multitudes contained in whiteness

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Jon Fosse welcomes you to the Vaim Hotel

The second instalment in the Norwegian author’s Vaim trilogy is a Kafkaesque farce about a hotel guest perplexed by his very presence in a strange fishing village

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The big picture: making a scene in Abuja

Photographer Paul Abbah has his subject ‘exaggerate everything’ in the harmattan dust of Nigeria’s capital

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Bohemian rhapsody: reasons to love the new Boho aesthetic

Boho is back, updated for the modern era with a touch of toughness and enduring appeal

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Nigel Slater’s recipe for baked apple ice-cream

A delightful ice-cream made with sharp cooking apples, perfect for autumn celebrations

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Why has Portuguese red wine become so sweet?

The incredible success of Porta 6 has inspired a wave of copycats. Fortunately, drier alternatives are available

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The PHP glitch identified by AI should serve as a wake-up call

The technology spotted a vulnerability in the internet deemed too complex for a human hacker to exploit – triggering a global scramble to fix it

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Brain implants and AI are solving the consciousness conundrum https://t.co/OworS85lEP

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