Laura Gascoigne In April Lionel Messi put a signed pair of his adidas football boots up for auction at Christie’s. Customised with the names of his wife and sons, they were the ‘game-worn’ boots in which the Barcelona

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striker scored his 644th goal for his club, beating Pele’s previous record

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nginx/1.17.10 of 643 for Santos. Perfumed with the player’s DNA, they […]

Rihanna is in trouble again. This time she has offended ‘the Hindu community’ by wearing a pendant featuring the

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elephant god Ganesha, a fashion choice denounced on Instagram

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nginx/1.17.10 as ‘mad disrespectful’. The Barbadian singer should have known better. She has previous in the fashion department, having already upset the Chinese community by dressing up in ancient Chinese costume for a […]

Laura Gascoigne Thank 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

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nginx/1.17.10 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 Bacon. The author, Max Porter, won the International Dylan Thomas Prize some time

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nginx/1.17.10 ago. Whenever awards are deployed I always think of Charlotte Rampling who, in her

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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 the toppling of the Edward

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nginx/1.17.10 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

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

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nginx/1.17.10 the best TV programme I saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of the French film Être et Avoir about a remarkable teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although

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a good deal less winsome. It focused […]

Charles Thomson Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, has used 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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nginx/1.17.10 Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor,

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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

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honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of the weekend Australian’s review section on June 20th it was rather like being thrown back

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nginx/1.17.10 into some weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really read […]