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The author taking shelter from the rain during the Camino in the grounds of an old monastery.
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More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
