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Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing