How the arts thrived at ‘the University of Barbed Wire’

Feud for thought: revisiting The House of Hunger

‘There is no technology riding to the rescue while capitalism is the dominant political philosophy’

Bettymania: how actor became ‘the first modern celebrity’

‘At no time did we believe we couldn’t make it – and so we just carried on’

Take the plunge: thrills and chills of open-water swimming

‘Men are told to man up and don’t cry’

Loch-down: outsider on a remote Scottish island in gripping thriller

How Lyndhurst Hall became a Kentish Town institution

How writer who sold millions of novels was almost written out of history

Axe of desperation

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CNJ at 40: Help us celebrate our birthday – and support campaigning journalism

High drama: drugs and a troubled detective

Love factually: a collection of heart-to-hearts

Vivat Rex! Standing up for comedy’s forgotten heroes

Poor lore: the shadow hanging over us

Time to reopen the Deighton file

Bomb sights: stoicism and suffering in the capital

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