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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good | Nellie Bowles

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A new age of the worker will overturn conventional thinking

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The end of consumerism ? | Leo Hickman

The narcissism of consumer society has left women unhappier than ever | Madeleine Bunting

The politics of health: a clear-eyed account of inequality and the NHS | Henry Marsh