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Dead sparrows, machine-guns and other lies
How and why the hysterical male response to a 1928 800-metre Olympic race froze women’s distance running for more than 30 years
Long Read
| Being Human, World
The joy of Man versus Horse 2024
Every year, hundreds of runners and scores of horse riders descend on a tiny Welsh town for a 24-mile race over steep hills. Why?
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Why is this astonishingly wealthy 93-year-old regarded as a sage and authority on life, success and happiness?
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| Being Human, World
Dr Rutherford and the pyramids of Armageddon
Why do cranks keep predicting the apocalypse – and why do we take them seriously?
May 23, 2024
15 mins
| Being Human, Ideas
The Packington Path War
What the everyday resistance of Islington's residents tells us about politics everywhere
May 02, 2024
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