Between lightning and a lightning bug

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Over the last week I've encountered a giant puppet, a loop of paper, radio airwaves, big bass drums, podcasts and Greek mythology. Yet nobody wants to…
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British pork, three beans and the end of empire
Thoughts on what fallen empires leave behind, pork getting a mention amid a conversation about pyramids and a book that might change the way I listen to…
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Mixtapes, Netflix and Dudus
Notes on compiling a few tunes, watching a lockdown-era sit-com masterpiece and taking a disengaged teenager to the ICA.
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Um, sort of a review: Felix White’s It’s Always Summer Somewhere…
Ok, so this is weird.
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Who am I to make recommendations?
We've all got access to the same streaming services and can no longer afford to buy new books or gig and theatre tickets, so what's the point of being…
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Dave Windass
Emotional risk
Young bankers
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A story that no one knows they are in…
Like all bookish, film, tv and box-set-loving, literary, narrative bores and writer-types, I am very interested in Joseph Campbell’s mythic structure…
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