Laura Gascoigne In April Lionel Messi put a signed pair of his adidas football boots up for auction at

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Christie’s. Customised with the names of his wife and sons, they were the ‘game-worn’ boots in which the 301 Moved Permanently Barcelona striker scored his 644th goal for his club, beating

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Rihanna is in trouble

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again. This time she has offended ‘the Hindu community’

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Laura Gascoigne Thank God for books. When shut off from real life, you can see it reflected in novels. But

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nginx how accurate is the reflection? Does the mirror distort? In month ten of the no-longer-new-abnormal I sat down

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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 called The Death of Francis

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nginx Bacon. The author, Max Porter, won the International Dylan Thomas Prize some time ago. Whenever awards are deployed I always think of

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Charlotte Rampling who, in her film The Swimming Pool, remarked: “Awards are like haemorrhoids, sooner or later every arsehole gets one.” It’s not […]

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Alexander Adams This article briefly outlines what happened with

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nginx the toppling 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

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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, I think that the best TV programme I saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways

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nginx this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of

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the French film 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,

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public office. He was confronted on Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding […]

Giles Auty This 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 the weekend Australian’s review section on June 20th it was

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Did I really read […]