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This England: It’s wheelie heavy
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Over Scotch eggs I am, to my shame, schooled in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
My friend Ben tells me the plot in such a way that I am suddenly inspired to read it, in…
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Thomas Hertog’s Q&A: “Stephen Hawking was the freest man I have known”
The cosmologist on learning to swim in Cambridge, travelling the Silk Roads, and why the future is bothering him.
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Who might I be now if, during my religious upbringing, I had never heard the word “sin”?
We were encouraged to have “accountability partners” to whom we would confess our “darkest” acts and desires.
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Subscriber of the Week: Simon Oakes
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My epiphany came on a sailing boat off the Isles of Scilly, flanked by dolphins
I am not sure I'll ever get my head around the combinations of choice and circumstance that make us who…
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