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BBCOct 16Preview

'We got penalised for saying 'pregnancy' on Instagram'

Creators say women's health content is getting them shadowbanned on social media. So what's really happening?

GuardianOct 15Preview

The Country Schoolmaster by Kate Grenville review – when finding the truth is ‘like grabbing at water’

The prize-winning author returns to Australia’s colonial archives to reflect on our thirst for answers. But like her source material, the results are slipperyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn much of her work – The Secret River, The Lieutenant and later A Room Made of Leaves and Restless Dolly Maunder – Kate Grenville has turned to historical archives as source material. But when she chanced upon a furious letter about a schoolteacher in northern New South Wales, she wasn’t sure there would be enough there. But Joseph Connor, a rural educator in the 1880s, had been accused of viciously beating and maltreating children in the town where her grandmother grew up – and the story wouldn’t let her go. “Powerful emotion of any kind is irresistible to a novelist,” she explained in a recent interview.So she kept reading. In 1884, just a few years after public schooling was made law, C

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BBCOct 15Preview

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

The home secretary said she would not hesitate to impose measures on other countries "refusing to co-operate".

GuardianOct 15Preview

Vermeer by Andrew Graham-Dixon audiobook review – a sharp and authoritative guide

The author offers intriguing insights into the way this Dutch artist worked, including fresh perspectives on The Girl With the Pearl EarringIn the decades after the death of the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1675, few knew his name or work. He was so unknown that his paintings were sold with the forged signatures of more popular artists attached. All that changed in the mid-19th century, when his art was reassessed by French critics. Today Vermeer is one of the most admired painters in the world, although, says art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon, he has “proved stubbornly resistant to interpretation”.Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, Graham-Dixon’s biography which was six years in the writing, endeavours to answer some unresolved questions, among them: what was Vermeer’s life like? Why did he paint the way he did? What was the intent behind his paintings, of which only 36 exist? Unlike t

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