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July 15, 2013 Thought

Too smooth: why aren’t there more hairy politicians?

In recent years – certainly since the Blair government – it has become the norm to examine members of parliament

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July 15, 2013 Film / Thought

Cheap and sentimental things

The word ‘cheap’ and the word ‘sentimental’ aren’t generally part of a lexicon of praise. Both might be used to

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July 15, 2013 Thought

Programmes about programmes

Some time ago at 8pm on a Saturday evening, the BBC broadcast a tribute programme to Bill Cotton, the former

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July 14, 2013 Digital / Thought

Twitter and road rage

Imagine your life reduced to 140 characters; trying to articulate the sum total of your being in a few pithy,

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July 14, 2013 Thought

Britain and its wet dreams

Dreams matter. Freud said that they express the fulfilment of a wish. But outside any clinical or professional psychological analysis,

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