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Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
