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Living in the present era can feel a bit like falling slowly down an endless flight of stairs while trying to balance cups of hot coffee, or on a...
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“Why did you take so many planes to get here?” asked my niece, who is four, blinking at me awkwardly as though she’d just happened upon an...
It was, as your granny might have said, a funny old week. A funny old decade-or-so, perhaps. There was the usual life business to fret about – work...
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The celebrity and political non-apology is a tediously common feature of our culture. Bill Clinton after lying about his relationship with Monica...
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