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Maps / The man trying to save Britain’s last great map library

In the heart of Bloomsbury, deep in the bowels of the UCL geography department, down corridors floored in institutional linoleum, sticky and scuffed...

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Alex Diggins

Fallen City / The remains of Sierra Leone’s City hotel symbolize Graham Greene’s ‘soupsweet land’

The City was once Freetown’s most storied hotel. It burned down in the early 2000s, a few weeks after British paratroopers fought off Revolutionary...

19.08.2026 30

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Alex Diggins

Fallen City / The remains of Sierra Leone’s City hotel symbolize Graham Greene’s ‘soupsweet land’

The City was once Freetown’s most storied hotel. It burned down in the early 2000s, a few weeks after British paratroopers fought off Revolutionary...

18.08.2026 20

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Alex Diggins

Arts / What’s the point of UNESCO?

The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’ laser-guided...

18.08.2026 20

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Alex Diggins

What’s the point of UNESCO?

The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’ laser-guided...

16.08.2026 30

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Alex Diggins

What’s the point of UNESCO?

The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’ laser-guided...

15.08.2026 20

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Alex Diggins

Arts / What’s the point of Unesco?

The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’ laser-guided...

04.08.2026 20

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Alex Diggins

What’s the point of Unesco?

The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’ laser-guided...

30.07.2026 30

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Alex Diggins

Where did all the funny Republicans go?

When did Republican writers stop being funny? Look around at the landscape of contemporary American literature – and, for that matter, TV and film...

07.06.2026 30

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Ovid puts today’s radicals to shame

It’s a crisp afternoon, and in a darkened room in central Amsterdam a woman is being smothered in snakes. Projected on to three walls is a massive...

09.04.2026 40

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Books / Who wants to bring back the Neanderthals?

In the not-too-distant future, if your T-shirt starts giving fashion advice or we’re all enslaved by a race of disease-resistant metahumans, then...

07.04.2026 40

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Alex diggins

Books / Who wants to bring back the Neanderthals?

In the not-too-distant future, if your T-shirt starts giving fashion advice or we’re all enslaved by a race of disease-resistant metahumans, then...

07.04.2026 40

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Alex diggins

Arts / Will the Houses of Parliament burn down?

What does £450 million get you these days? With that cash, you could buy a Premier League football club. Or fund 10,000 nurses for a year. If...

10.03.2026 50

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Alex diggins

Arts / Will the Houses of Parliament burn down?

What does £450 million get you these days? With that cash, you could buy a Premier League football club. Or fund 10,000 nurses for a year. If...

10.03.2026 40

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Alex diggins

Arts / Will the Houses of Parliament burn down?

What does £450 million get you these days? With that cash, you could buy a Premier League football club. Or fund 10,000 nurses for a year. If...

06.03.2026 50

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Alex diggins