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No sacred cows / Confessions of a yo-yo fat-jabber
Ancient and modern / The ancient Greek take on human rights
Force majeure / How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police
Wheel life / Lime bikes are dangerous. That’s why I love them
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From Spectator LifeLondon on Monday night was mad and hilarious. At the Hyde Park Corner crossing, the number of people on Lime bikes must have been approaching 100. Invariably described as menaces, murderers and leg-breakers, these Lime bikes and their riders waited for the traffic light to turn green. When it did, battalions of these 35-kilo machines
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The glorious campness of Reform
It’s a very serious and rancorous time in Britain. Social strife is simmering. The asylum system is at breaking point. The lines on the economics graphs are all going in unsettling directions – the ones you’d prefer to see going down are going up, and vice versa. And inevitably the Overton window is shifting. Though
The glorious campness of Reform
It’s a very serious and rancorous time in Britain. Social strife is simmering. The asylum system is at breaking point. The lines on the economics graphs are all going in unsettling directions – the ones you’d prefer to see going down are going up, and vice versa. And inevitably the Overton window is shifting. Though
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Mercifully short: Interview at Riverside Studios reviewed
From the magazineInterview is a blind-date play. Only it’s not a blind date but a showbiz interview for a journal called the New York Chronicle. The characters (played by Robert Sean Leonard and Paten Hughes) bicker, flirt and get emotionally involved during a 90-minute conversation. Naturally it all starts badly. The interviewer, Pierre, arrives at Katya’s Brooklyn
The man who can save classical music
From the magazineAnother Traitors rip-off – and it might be even better than the original: Channel 4’s The Inheritance reviewed
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Dartmoor’s forgotten painter
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Huge Fun: Le Carnaval de Venise reviewed
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I could never sit through it again: The Cut reviewed
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Shambolic, spontaneously chaotic and combustible: the Lemonheads at SWG3 Galvanizers reviewed
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