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John Sturgis

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Polestar / Ice and identity in Lublin, Poland's forgotten city

A Real Pain was one of my favorite films of recent years, a tragicomic exploration of family, history, place and identity featuring two Americans in...

02.03.2026 7

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Ice and identity in Lublin, Poland's forgotten city

A Real Pain was one of my favourite films of recent years, a tragicomic exploration of family, history, place and identity featuring two...

02.03.2026 9

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Rediscovering Dylan Thomas, pint by pint

11.02.2026 1

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Am I the last man in Europe still wearing a beret?

17.10.2025 5

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Back to life / ‘Lazarus pubs’ are a cause for celebration

06.10.2025 10

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Second-hand books tell the most surprising stories

29.09.2025 8

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My Kafkaesque clash with TfL

28.07.2025 9

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Now it’s getting late: on Neil Young, ageing and fatherhood

19.07.2025 6

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The peculiar tale of the ‘internet babies’

23.05.2025 10

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Why Londoners still love Ally Pally

04.05.2025 10

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High & mighty / Why Londoners still love Ally Pally

04.05.2025 10

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Recollections of a 1980s indie kid

30.03.2025 10

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Should Sepp Blatter really be prosecuted?

22.03.2025 10

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Pretty Pollo / The restaurant where time (and prices) have stood still

10.03.2025 10

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Last orders / Farewell to my 300-year-old local pub

03.03.2025 10

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Space oddity / Tim Peake makes me cringe

24.02.2025 10

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Appy hour / The key to finding the best pubs in Britain

03.02.2025 10

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London needs the Prince Charles cinema

31.01.2025 10

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Keith Jarrett’s accidental masterpiece

24.01.2025 10

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The worst hangover in the world

I awoke in the early afternoon of 31 December 1995 face down on the carpeted floor of a mansion house flat in Notting Hill with the...

01.01.2025 9

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Were Boney M the weirdest pop act of all time?

For a spell in the late 1970s there were two pop groups which dominated the UK singles charts – both, coincidentally, vocal quartets from...

19.12.2024 7

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The tragedy of Anne Boleyn’s childhood home

Hever Castle was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn and played a not insignificant part in the Henry VIII story. The smitten despot, already...

09.12.2024 4

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