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The jolly refugee: how Teffi captivated the world
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea reveals the eye for truth and optimistic spirit of an extroadinary Russian celebrity. This remarkable memoir of a journey from Moscow to Ukraine to the Black Sea...
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How the shape of my father’s trousers prepared me for the life we live now
“So many,” as Eliot might well have said, “who would’ve thought life would’ve untucked so many?” In his history Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (the work that lends its title...
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In this week's magazine | The Great Huckster
A first look at this week's issue. The Great Huckster20 - 26 May issueCover story: Boris Johnson and the abuse of history. Brendan Simms on how the scholar and student of Churchill has wilfully...
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Why Hollywood whitewashing isn’t always racist
All of acting is pretending – so why do we demand that a character's race be "real"? It took Steven Spielberg eight years to get Ghost in the Shell into production. His film company, DreamWorks,...
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The HH Podcast, episode 6: The Great Forgetting
The Hidden Histories podcast. Welcome to the final episode of The Great Forgetting: women writers before Austen. This week, Helen Lewis, is joined by Sophie Coulombeau and Elizabeth Edwards to explore...
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How a tennis match between Caravaggio and a Spanish poet reveals the...
Álvaro Enrigue’s intellectually formidable novel Sudden Death takes an unusual approach to an unusual subject matter – with startling results. The ideal way to review Álvaro Enrigue’s intellectually...
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How Plaid Cymru will work to get the best deal for Wales
Plaid Cymru's leader, Leanne Wood, explains her deal with Welsh Labour. During the recent National Assembly elections, Plaid Cymru stood on a platform of change. A change that would deliver not...
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The Queen's Speech: how did last year's measures get on?
Although the government had to make concessions, the bulk of its agenda got through. This year’s Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s programme for the coming year. Of course, that programme has...
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Andy Burnham to run for Greater Manchester mayor
The shadow home secretary faces a tough battle, but he has a real chance. Labour’s shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, will enter the race to be Labour’s mayoral candidate next year’s inaugural...
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Wigs and Whigs: Who exactly were the Georgians?
10 things you need to know about the House of Hanover. Our national sense of royal history tends to get a little vague after Charles I, and when it comes to the 18th century, it’s positively hazy....
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Scientists have created a spider web-like “liquid wire”
The new material possesses both liquid and solid properties. Touch a spider’s web, and it’s sticky. Pull a thread of a spider’s web, and it will stretch to forty times its length and return to its...
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Leader: Stop meddling in our schools
Instead of meddling with structures, the government should address the growing teacher shortage. On 18 May, the Conservative government unveiled its forthcoming legislative programme in the Queen’s...
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Wisden 2016 reveals how cricket’s most faithful supporters suffer from...
Modern cricket has a split personality: the die-hard fans all agree that five-day Test matches and four-day domestic matches represent “proper” cricket, yet worldwide few people turn out to watch them....
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There have been five Pope Felixes, only three of whom were actually Pope
2,000 years of administrative screw ups in the Vatican. Admin’s always a nightmare, isn’t it? Trying to keep track of your finances. Casually wondering where you filed your warranty documents, as the...
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The “celebrity threesome” injunction is upheld: what does this mean?
This is really about questions of privacy vs freedom of the press. The Supreme Court, the highest court in England and Wales, has handed down judgment in a case known only as PJS v News Group...
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Disney on steroids: Why Galla Placidia is one Roman empress who needs an HBO...
Evil foster parents, traitorous children, and six years on the road with some Barbarians. When it comes to the women of the Roman Empire, it’s usually the Julio-Claudians most people will have heard...
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Alan Rusbridger on paywalls, funding schemes and the future of the media
My week, from tackling elitism at Oxford to a lecture on the Panama Papers. Lord Patten, I read in the Telegraph, thinks that universities “cannot accept more ethnic minority students without eroding...
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The Queen’s Speech and tech: Spaceports, Driverless Cars and high speed...
The government’s proposed Modern Transport Bill and Digital Economy Bill give the speech a modern facelift. On Wednesday, the Conservative government’s proposed new laws were laid out by the Queen in...
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Europe’s secret deal with Africa’s dictators
The plan, which involved co-operation with some of the continent’s most notorious regimes, was aimed at stopping refugees from Africa reaching Europe. Detailed plans, copies of which have been seen by...
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Peston on Sunday seems to respect politicians more than other species of human
Between "screeny" and Allegra Stratton as, effectively, Peston's Anthea Redfern, the new show isn't quite up to scratch. Not wanting to be mean, I waited a week to get stuck into Peston on Sunday (15...
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