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“Over the last few years,” reports MyLondon, “Brixton has become increasingly gentrified with an increase of mainstream shops as well as pubs and bars. Locals say it is starting to become unrecognisable as the hub of the Black community which built it, with fears the history of…
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You will meet few people, nowadays, who would take offence at being called “transgressive”. Left-wingers see themselves as transgressing against the…
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No one quite remembered who had been the first man to wear his pants on his head. Rumours had begun to circulate about a man attending parties, book…
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Okay, I am far from being the best judge here. A vegetarian writing about Polish food? You might as well have a teetotal man reviewing Italian wines…
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The death of Ayman al-Zawahiri was anti-climactic. For two decades, since 9/11, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command had eluded capture or killing…
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I was once sitting with a friend of mine who owns a business when one of their employees called with news they were pregnant. My friend offered cheerful…
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Frankly, Vogue should have stayed out of politics after having to bury its profile of Asma al-Assad — “A Rose in the Desert” — so far down a memory hole…
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Hello, I missed you. Obligatory shilling. I wrote for Spectator World about spree killers and Ezra Miller. I wrote for The Critic about the end of Boris…
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