Laura Gascoigne Thank

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nginx/1.17.10 God for books. When shut off from real life, you can see it reflected in novels. But

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how accurate is the reflection? Does the mirror distort? In month ten of the no-longer-new-abnormal I sat down with a stack of novels about artists. Some I’d read before, others were new, chief among them the fons et origo of […]

Dick French A curious little book has just come out

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nginx/1.17.10 called The Death of Francis Bacon. The author, Max Porter, won the International Dylan Thomas Prize some time ago. Whenever awards are deployed I always think of Charlotte Rampling who, in her film The Swimming Pool, remarked: “Awards are like haemorrhoids, sooner or later every

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arsehole gets one.” It’s not […]

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Alexander Adams This article briefly outlines what

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nginx/1.17.10 happened with the toppling

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of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, why it happened and its ramifications. On 7 June 2020, a large protest took place in the centre of Bristol, ostensibly against racism. The large gathering was in contravention on national and local restrictions on public gatherings due to COVID-19. No dispersal […]

William Varley reviews Addicted to Sheep So, as all cool sentences begin,

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nginx/1.17.10 I think that the best TV programme I saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of the French film

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Être et Avoir about a remarkable teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good deal less winsome. It focused […]

Charles Thomson Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, has used

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nginx/1.17.10 the platform of the BBC in a blatant attempt to deceive the nation. Either that or he is genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public office. He was confronted on

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Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding […]

Giles Auty This

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nginx/1.17.10 was the last piece Giles submitted to The Jackdaw. He died suddenly in September, aged 86. It’s all about the money honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of

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the weekend Australian’s review section on June 20th it was rather like being thrown back into some weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really read […]

Alexander Adams We are told that in many fields women face systematic disadvantage and are under-represented. It has become a core belief of many and goes almost unchallenged. When politicians came under pressure regarding supposed gender discrimination in the workplace, the British government conducted a survey

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of

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nginx/1.17.10 arts organisations. The 2018 report found that women comprise 56% of the British […]

Alexander Adams “Was Lt Columbo’s name

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nginx/1.17.10 really Frank? We’ve all seen the freeze-frame close-ups of Columbo’s ID badge which states that his first name is ‘Frank”. But should we consider this canonical?” I’m becoming more and more confused by this

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‘canonical’ business. The above is from Columbophile website. I love his joke about the Jewish lady who was walking down […]