Books
All the usual suspects
Owen Jones’s first book, Chavs, was a political bestseller. This follow-up skips over the middle classes and goes to the…
Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Lost in transfusion
The Children Act could hardly be more attuned to the temper of the times, appearing just as our newspapers are…
The Indian lady at the chemist
I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…
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The Indian lady at the chemist
I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…
Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Indian lady at the chemist
I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…
Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Beautiful and damned
For centuries hailed as the home of poetry, music and liberalism, Weimar was ruthlessly exploited by the Nazis and later served as a showcase for communism, says Philip Hensher
Suffering in silence
A few years ago, after a lifetime of wearing white shirts through which the straps of my white bra were…
Like a Prayer
The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…
Poet, priest and life-enhancer
Hilaire Belloc was once being discussed on some television programme. One of the panellists was Peter Levi. The other critics…
Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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What is going on?
Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…
We shall fight them on the beaches…
Dad’s Army, the sitcom to end all sitcoms, portrayed the Home Guard as often doddery veterans. In one episode, Private…
Lords of the ring
The early 1970s was a good time for heavyweight boxing. Indeed, it was probably the last truly great age for…
Layers of meaning
An untitled photograph by Jerry Uelsmann from 1991 shows a rock like Magritte’s floating in the sky between an Ansel…
In love with the lodger
Champion Hill, Camberwell, 1922. A mother and daughter, stripped of their menfolk by the Great War, struggle to make ends…
In the gutter, looking at the stars
What he really wanted, Picasso once remarked, was to live ‘like a pauper, but with plenty of money’. It sounds…
X and his complexes
‘X’ is in ‘the Situation’: Joseph O’Neill, author of the clever and superb Netherland, hereby lets us know that his…
Full of sound and fury
The French Revolution ushered in not only a revolution of rolling heads but of talking ones too. ‘Speech-making was a…
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Thought bubbles
It is not really a surprise that political parties produce a certain number of oddballs; the scary thing is that…
Like a Prayer
The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…
