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Books & arts
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These foolish things
No reliable statistics exist — it’s not the sort of thing you can audit — but England is surely the…
The lost world
Every now and then, with great infrequency (alas), a film comes along that is like no other and completely knocks…
Boxing
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Doing bird
A decade ago, the French pianist and poly-math Pierre-Laurent Aimard announced that he was ‘very bored to live in a…
Sourced
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No laughing matter
Rossini is the meat-and-two-inappropriately-shaped-veg of summer opera; he’s the wag in the novelty bow tie, the two satyrs shagging enthusiastically…
Rolypoly
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Profit and loss
Bertolt Brecht took The Threepenny Opera from an 18th-century script by John Gay and relocated it to Victorian London. This…
Prophet
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Let’s talk about sex
At one time, Damien Hirst was fond of remarking that art should deal with the Gauguin questions. Namely, ‘Where do…
Doctor
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Polluted by podcasts
Just to prove my esteemed colleague wrong I’ve been out there in podcast space looking for a wireless moment that…
Jester
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Arrested development
Sometimes I wonder whether, of all the literary genres, graphic novels aren’t the most stupidly overrated. I can say this…
High life
Shelter Island is nestled in the Long Island Sound, ten minutes by ferry from Sag Harbor and a good 30…
Low life
Showered and shaved and wearing a stiff new Paul Smith candy-stripe shirt, I took an Uber to the party. I…
Real life
Would you like a Labour party manifesto with your breakfast?’ the tattooed, multi-pierced waitress might as well have asked as…
Long life
I’m back in England after travelling from Italy by railway, because I have been forbidden to fly in case the…
Girl power
How much strength do you need to win a horse race? Do women have enough? And if they don’t should…
Office politics
This book is not about what the title suggests. Yes, as Tony Abbott’s chief of staff Peta Credlin held a…
Editor’s picks
World
Magazine
This Bill is a disgrace
Libs must fight now for free speech. Or lose the election.
The white man’s burden
Critical race theory is racist and deliberately foments division
