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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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‘Throwing spaghetti at the wall’: Panicking Republicans launch barrage of personal attacks https://t.co/WQFnaiLwzU

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Ilford Boy – coming out in a blaze of glorious one-liners https://t.co/llLc2Lursa

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Nigel Slater’s recipe for baked apple ice-cream https://t.co/5GkoZojTen

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Jon Fosse welcomes you to the Vaim Hotel https://t.co/ILg1liK1NY

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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Wildwood, Clayface, Possible Love and more https://t.co/dIyQtduhnK

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Leo Reich solves the male loneliness crisis https://t.co/o7OO6mCEF2

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Fallen champions are fascinating, so how will Red Roses respond? https://t.co/pSwPheI3EU

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The unsayable truth about Manchester United https://t.co/tXakL6qkPm

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Universe plus magick and mysticism: Aleister Crowley’s formula for love discovered https://t.co/IihNvC3GhZ

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Is there life after loss for the Red Roses? https://t.co/NuRUyDpmN4

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Why Wall Street has fallen out of love with Netflix: ‘It ran out of planet’ https://t.co/gdnbgF6ZQf

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Shutting Jodrell Bank would close a window on the universe

A telescope that tracked Sputnik. A Unesco site. A living scientific marvel… Why is Jodrell Bank at risk?

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Rent – Gaten Matarazzo leads a sparky revival for a new Generation Rent

Boasting infectious performances from a superb cast, Jonathan Larson’s cult classic still more than pays its way

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By me for @ObserverUK: Aleister Crowley's formula for love, discovered in hand-written annotations to his own copy of his poetry collection, which has just come to the market.
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Fatherland – Sandra Hüller reckons with Germany’s ghosts in Thomas Mann biopic

Paweł Pawlikowski’s elegant, austere portrait of the exiled author’s return to Germany is anchored by a quietly commanding turn by the actor playing his daughter

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Slow death of rugby league is down to data, algorithms and football’s hegemonic ‘Big Six’

It’s one of Britain’s best-attended sports but you’d struggle to find the World Cup on TV. What hope do the rest have?

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Mothers of Kherson – a brave, blistering opera for Ukraine’s stolen children

In Warsaw, the world premiere of an urgent new opera about Russia’s unlawful wartime abductions gets a 20-minute standing ovation

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Leo Reich solves the male loneliness crisis

The creator and star of the brilliant new Channel 4 series It Gets Worse self-diagnoses a generational malady – and goes in search of answers

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The riddle of JRR Tolkien

Conservative and radical, civilised and wild – the great fantasy novelist was a living conundrum. In The King Under the Mountain, DJ Taylor seeks to unpick his legend

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