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Tim Adams

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For now, let’s revel in Bluesky’s promised land and kid ourselves it’ll never get like X

The fabulous Carol Vorderman got me briefly hooked last week in watching a particular number increase by the second. The number was the user count for...

24.11.2024 30

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The Washington Post sits on the fence at the most dangerous time in history

The theory is that journalists should report the news rather than headline it – but on Friday the Washington Post, the celebrated ally of American...

26.10.2024 20

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It’s a pretty pass when even the Fortean Times warns of the ‘lone nut fraternity’

I picked up the October issue of the Fortean Times the other day. For half a century, the magazine has been the go-to place for reports of the...

28.09.2024 70

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All of London’s seedy poetry is there to see in the setting for TV thriller Slow Horses

There is no blue plaque on the wall of 126 Aldersgate, a narrow four-storey terrace above a fast-food grill, near London’s Barbican, but it can’t...

31.08.2024 10

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I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

The barrister Paul Powlesland, who has acted for climate protesters, was called to jury service last week, and made judicial history by taking an oath...

03.08.2024 8

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Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

It’s liberating to sense how a government whose primary concern is not fighting culture wars might return a grown-up freedom to public debate....

06.07.2024 10

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Infowars liquidation a small measure of justice for bereaved Sandy Hook families

From time to time, in this job, you have the privilege of meeting an individual whose vivid spirit stays with you. For me, one of those individuals...

08.06.2024 10

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Notebook If you’re seeking a good old British farce, look no further than Liz Truss’s memoirs

British public life often tends toward sitcom, and you imagine that once the catastrophic economic fallout of her time in office has faded – in a...

13.04.2024 20

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Notebook Birmingham council has just cut services to the bone, but its citizens can’t read all about it in print

In a week in which the nation’s eyeballs have been fixed on the wonky sleeve of a royal cardigan, the news of the effective bankruptcy of...

16.03.2024 10

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Notebook If a firm’s mission mantra includes words like ‘trust’, be alarmed: just look at Fujitsu’s

The idea that every business needs a messianic mission statement took hold in the 1970s, to “humanise” faceless global corporations. The...

20.01.2024 20

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Notebook Church of England’s blessings are heavily in disguise for same-sex couples

Today, for the first Sunday in the 489-year history of the Church of England, its vicars are at liberty to offer “prayers of love and faith” to...

16.12.2023 10

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