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A discussion on young Christians and the recovery of the sacred

  • Tuesday 8 July 2025, 7:00pm
  • St Bartholomew the Great, London
  • £40 - £50
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Bluesky is dying

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In the middle of Cairo there’s a place called the City of the Dead. In essence, it is a dusty sprawl of mausoleums, sepulchres and crumbling Mameluke tombs, that has housed the corpses of the city for over a thousand years. On a dank winter’s dusk, it feels especially lifeless – deformed dogs vanish into

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Julie Burchill

The death of celebrity gossip

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Porn Britannia

The UK’s only growth industry

Louise Perry

Why OnlyFans has young British women in its grip

The porn star Bonnie Blue offers a straightforward explanation for her decision to join OnlyFans. She was in her early twenties, married to her teenage sweetheart, pursuing a career in recruitment and living in Derbyshire, the county of her birth. As she told an interviewer last year: ‘I used to work an office job, nine

Why OnlyFans has young British women in its grip

The porn star Bonnie Blue offers a straightforward explanation for her decision to join OnlyFans. She was in her early twenties, married to her teenage sweetheart, pursuing a career in recruitment and living in Derbyshire, the county of her birth. As she told an interviewer last year: ‘I used to work an office job, nine

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The Renaissance master who rescued polyphonic music

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Last month I watched conductor Harry Christophers blow through what sounded like an arthritic harmonica but in fact was a pure-toned pitch pipe, which handed the singers of his vocal group the Sixteen their starting notes. Then the Kyrie from Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Regina coeli unfolded inside the resonant splendour of St James’s

Podcasts

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Grizelda

‘‘Why are the public so out of touch with us?’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘If the magic money tree can make a comeback, I have high hopes for the future.’’

Cartoon

Arabella Byrne

Ascot has been ruined by the middle classes

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