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David Bowie was no starman

David Bowie was no starman
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Tail end / A Bagpuss film is a terrible idea

23.09.2025 5

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Why is Lambeth council charging landlords £923 to fill out a form?

01.09.2025 8

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Paradise lost / The myth of the relaxing beach holiday

19.08.2025 10

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Irony man / Who does Stewart Lee think he is?

16.07.2025 10

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The Good Life simply wasn’t very good

20.06.2025 6

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Admit it: Creme Eggs are vile

17.04.2025 7

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Mane character / Who’s still laughing at Donald Trump’s hair?

10.03.2025 10

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La grande bouffe / Stop scoffing food on trains!

07.03.2025 10

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Stop scoffing food on trains!

06.03.2025 10

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Belly up / Can happiness be found in the gut?

26.02.2025 9

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Perfect Partridge / Steve Coogan should stick to comedy

08.02.2025 10

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Steve Coogan should stick to comedy

08.02.2025 10

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Slush fund / The death of affordable skiing

14.01.2025 40

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Chilly reception / The nonsense of Frieze

And so ends another Frieze, where art lovers from across the globe gather to admire each other’s horn-rimmed spectacles, regulation black attire...

14.10.2024 9

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Pistols Reloaded / Punk may be dead, but the Sex Pistols aren’t

Pull those ripped tartan trews on lads, the Sex Pistols are back! Well, kind of. Lead singer John Joseph Lydon, aka ‘Rotten’, is livid that the...

01.10.2024 4

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Can Sadiq Khan save Oxford Street?

Oxford Street’s spiralling tawdriness is a miserable advert for London. The ‘candy’ stores and tourist tat ‘luggage’ emporiums, the gang fights and...

19.09.2024 4

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Blandification / Hollywood’s youth obsession is draining the life from films

Can anyone name the actors in the new Alien: Romulus movie? No, me neither. Which seems odd for such a massive franchise, but then I struggle to...

03.09.2024 30

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