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Discover “one of the finest novelists of her and our time.” 

Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do

It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years

Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival

Activists are secretly training the judiciary to misapply the law

Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks

His concerto is a rag-and-bone man’s barrow trundling down a Haussmann boulevard

Professor Jeremy Black rounds up the best autumnal reads that are successful in grounding a sense of place

Fates in this unforgiving industry are long decided