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Lynsey Hanley

Lynsey Hanley

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Back to the future

  • 04 June 2007

Lynsey Hanley cheers the reopening of the refurbished Royal Festival Hall but is it still a people's palace?

Nostalgia addicts

  • 21 May 2007

The British love to dwell on their postwar "decline", but our grumpiness is misplaced, writes Lynsey Hanley.
We have no need to despair - or to emigrate

A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr Macmillan, 500pp, £25
ISBN 1405005386

Castles in the air

  • 02 April 2007

Planning future cities requires not science fiction, writes Lynsey Hanley, but a firm grasp of practicalities

A reasonable man

  • 19 March 2007
  • 2 comments

How to be Right: the essential guide to making left liberals history
James Delingpole Headline Review, 192pp, £12.99

Making a good impression

  • 12 March 2007

Meet the big, floppy child who defends liberal America from the ranting right
Storyville - Al Franken: God spoke BBC4

Average white band

  • 05 March 2007
  • 4 comments

Welcome to Everytown
Julian Baggini Granta, 274pp, £14.99
ISBN 1862079218

Our friends in the north

  • 26 February 2007

Pies and Prejudice: in search of the north
Stuart Maconie Ebury, 338pp, £11.99
ISBN 0091910226

The cost of capitalism

  • 29 January 2007

Affluenza
Oliver James Vermilion, 382pp, £17.99
ISBN 0091900107

Island state estates

  • 22 January 2007

Lynsey Hanley takes a trip cross-country into the deserted council housing of her early childhood

Look at me, I'm special

  • 18 December 2006

From middle class memoirs to trashy celebrity life stories, biographies in 2006 shared a belief in human indefatigability.

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