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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
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
