Sean French

Articles by Sean French

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If you employ my system, you will win 99 per cent of the time at the roulette wheel

  • 27 September 1999

My sex education was startlingly incomplete: I'm still extremely curious about wet dreams

  • 20 September 1999

He's lovely, they say. So is his family. But I can't ever meet John Peel, even though he lives nearby

  • 13 September 1999

What can you do when, dragged along by the kids to the latest Star Wars film, you face something utterly dire?

  • 06 September 1999

My gap year wasn't a success: I learnt little from preparing the high priests for orgies in the temple

  • 30 August 1999

Men don't stroke their beards in order to look wise; they're looking for bits of their lunch that may still be in there

  • 23 August 1999

As Marx wrote, history occurs three times: first as tragedy, second as a movie, and third enacted by ducks

  • 16 August 1999

I have never cried over being sacked, but I do weep over the Beatles, Tchaikovsky or Judy Garland

  • 09 August 1999

Automated phone answering systems are universally loathed, but can they be uninvented?

  • 19 July 1999

I've always been able to throw away the ladder. The trouble is that I was usually still on it at the time

  • 12 July 1999

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

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Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

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