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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…
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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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When I was a kid — five or six years old — my best schoolfriend moved to a village on the outskirts of our hometown and switched to a different school…
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I am fascinated by Dr Eric Feigl-Ding. I wonder what his days look like. Does he wake up in a state of constant alarm? Does he run to the bathroom to…
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Sometimes British people get intensely into American politics because it is so much more sensational than British politics. I’m not like that. I’m into…
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When I was a young man I had various career aspirations. I wanted to be a cricket player, which would have been a marvellous plan had it not been for…
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