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Canterbury Tales

Voltaire once said of religion: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin...

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Letter from London: Barry Flanagan’s Wake

Someone recently watched a film I was lucky enough to make about the late artist and sculptor Barry Flanagan. They asked me how the idea came about...

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Letter From London: Urban Wildlife

While the rest of the world realigns, the little reported super-fast 200mph peregrine falcon is once more king of the London skies. There is even such...

13.11.2024 6

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Letter From London: Urban Wildlife

While the rest of the world realigns, the little reported super-fast 200mph peregrine falcon is once more king of the London skies. There is even such...

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Letter from London: The Poet, the Leader, the Bishop, and the Post-Punk Maker

An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin Modern Poets series in which...

06.11.2024 5

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Letter from London: An Ocean Apart?

Betty Boop is not the only remarkable figure on show in Florida. Henry McLeish is visiting professor of UK and European politics at the University of...

30.10.2024 10

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Letter from London: My Week with The Artist

Often the success of a painting today is measured in terms of how much it sells for and not how much it may or may not affect us. Everything we hold...

23.10.2024 8

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Letter from London: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

London, 4.44am. I used to catch minicabs to airports around this time. To Kabul, via Dubai, or a plane direct to New York. Back then, a quick blast of...

16.10.2024 10

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Letter from London: The Zombie Knives Are Out

A teenage boy last week was stabbed to death close to where we live here in south-east London. He was reported as saying, ‘I’m 15, don’t let me...

02.10.2024 8

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Letter from London: Hush

The giant harvest moon in the London sky sent me scurrying back to Neil Young, though rather than moonlight for harvesting farmers, it got me...

26.09.2024 10

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Letter from London: Whose Strength is Spent in Vain

News rolls in, news rolls out. Somewhere in the waves we lose our compassion. Occasionally, on beaches, we find it again. Like a not so rigid...

11.09.2024 20

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Letter from London: Braveheart Asymptote

I write this from a London hospital bed having—most powerfully—imagined bagpipes the moment I came round from my operation. Drugs will do that for...

28.08.2024 9

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