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Pastoral pleasures
Delighting and relaxing away from the city
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
The establishment is still denying justice to the victims of grooming gangs
Institutional failures must be exposed and accounted for
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
