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Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
Hen don’t
DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood
An inspector calls
An Englishman’s illegally small room should be his castle
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
Aujourd hui, Boris ne regrette rien
Boris bitterly regrets that his actions have consequences
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
In an end, a beginning
The Queen’s absence serves as a reminder of the enduring importance of the monarchy
The German Reformation
Professor Jeremy Black discusses the effect that Martin Luther and the Reformation had on the German lands in the sixteenth century