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Finding joy in uncertain times

Finding joy in uncertain times

Perspective Media
March 16, 2025

THIS WEEK’S DEEP DIVE
All that jazz
BY LUCY MOORE

Lucy Moore explores surprising parallels between our time and the 1920s. Despite similar challenges, our era seems unexpectedly subdued. Is it time to recapture the “devil-may-care pizzazz” of a century ago? Read her thought-provoking analysis of history repeating – with a twist.

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People

Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer talks to Joanna Grochowicz about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out.

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People said: ‘Thank you, I now understand my father and why he couldn’t connect with us as children’

CHARLES SPENCER

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Our low-down on current issues

Pollution for profit

Claudia Cockerell explores how history repeats as sewage pollutes UK waters. With water bills set to surge, campaigners debate solutions from fines to renationalisation. Can we clean up this modern-day “Great Stink”?

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Water companies are set to hike bills by up to 70 per cent in the next five years

Natural hazards

Sarah Hall challenges our dystopian mindset in the face of climate crisis. Are we trapped or can we find inspiration in real-world activism? From River Action’s legal battle to protect the Wye, to rethinking the role of literature, she explores how we might shift from spectators to agents of change in our climate story.

www.perspectivemedia.com/natural-hazards

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How does a writer approach such marvels and such culpable loss?

Life

Cutting ties

Rowena Macdonald’s journey with Lana, a hairdresser who's more than meets the eye. Explore the intimate, often fraught relationship between stylist and customer in this compelling personal essay about identity, ambition, and the power of reinvention.

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I always felt she had the upper hand, since she was wielding the scissors

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