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Acting his age

Acting his age

What happens to film franchises when action heroes age?

On Cinema

Robert Hutton

Improvement and impoverishment

Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house

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In a manor of shrieking

One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA

On Radio

Ben Sixsmith

The Tory beauty contest

The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing

Sketch

Robert Hutton

Towards a hospitable environmentalism

Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity

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Kittie Helmick

Going solo

This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet

Sports

Patrick Kidd

Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European

Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?

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Ben Sixsmith

They call it Poppy love

Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants

Woman About Town

Sarah Ditum

Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe

We cannot complacently depend on the US

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Ben Sixsmith

Don’t let it go

Communal singing is good for the soul

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James Olsen

The 300 Years’ War

How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland

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Aidan Harte

Why Twitter needs the libs

Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go

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Jack Flockhart

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