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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 10 (Friday 22 May 2026)

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The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and media discussions remain at an almost wilfully superficial level, largely focused on whether the current loan system is ‘unfair’ to students. To go deeper, we need to examine the premises underlying that system and to look at the transformative effects they have...

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Earlier Mrs Wren had appeared entirely joyful holding her husband’s hand in the outer corridor – yet how she wept inside of the courtroom, so much so that her face looked enamelled....

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Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto or creed, but has been formed through successive smaller ideological conflicts. Thus the statist ordoliberalism of the early Putin era was followed by a conservative geopolitical turn, which in turn has been followed by the more eschatological militarism and soci...

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Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled the cultural historical implications. The absence of references to the war only makes its agonies, invisibly encoded, more traumatic. There’s nothing more horrific than the violent removal of identity, the fate of the characters thus representing the unease of a nat...

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