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End of the rainbow
The fall of Pride
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The lost art of getting lost
From the magazineOne of the quietly profound pleasures of travel is renting cars in ‘unusual’ locations. I’ve done it in Azerbaijan, Colombia, Syria and Peru (of which more later). I’ve done it in Yerevan airport, Armenia, where the car-rental guy was so amazed that someone wanted to hire a car to ‘drive around Armenia’ that he apparently
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End of the rainbow
The fall of Pride
End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion
End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion
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Why is the BBC making stuff up about Jane Austen?
From the magazineJane Austen: Rise of a Genius began by saying that ‘getting into her mind isn’t easy’ – something you’d never have guessed from the rest of the episode, where both the narrator and the talking heads were able to tell us exactly what Austen was thinking and feeling at any given time. Like many Austen
Museums: open up your vaults!
From the magazineThe best radio at the moment is on the BBC World Service
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Everyone should see the Globe’s brilliant new production of The Crucible
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Sincere, serious and beautiful: Glyndebourne’s Parsifal reviewed
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Anyone irritated by Springsteen’s speeches hasn’t been paying attention
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Fascinating royal clutter: The Edwardians, at The King’s Gallery, reviewed
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‘‘In this one Mrs Goggins dies of old age before she gets compensation.’’
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