Both familiar and strange: Elton John’s “Your Song” and the elusive art of hit-making
I had dismissed it as too obvious, but then, the interesting thing about “Your Song” is how far from…
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I had dismissed it as too obvious, but then, the interesting thing about “Your Song” is how far from…
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As Iran’s leadership contemplate the next steps in their developing confrontation with the United States, they must wonder whether …
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When informed of the death of the notoriously taciturn former US president Calvin Coolidge in 1933, the satirist Dorothy…
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“Why are you so obsessed with pigs?” my ex-boyfriend once asked. He was looking over my shoulder while I…
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The Conservative leadership contest is defined by fantastical promises over Brexit and reckless pledges of lower taxes and higher…
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Almost ten years after the introduction of austerity, Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, visited the…
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Vladimir Putin arrived at the G20 in Osaka, Japan, as the victor of an ideological world war. This was…
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It’s Jeremy Corbyn’s morale not his health that’s causing concern in the Labour leader’s inner circle. One shadow cabinet…
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On 7 January 2015, 12 people were murdered by Islamist extremists in the Paris offices of the French satirical…
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Watching Inside the Bank of England (2 July, 9.30pm) is like visiting a spa – unless, of course, you’re the…
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The visually ravishing animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won an Oscar this year – a far cry from…
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“Are you a bewitching person? Welcome to the show where magic is real!” To a gripping American podcast, presented…
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The Bad Boy of Athens Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey, an account of how he and his father…
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It is easy to say that politicians only refer to history when it suits them, yet Helen Thompson’s article…
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Rosemary, they say, is for remembrance, and my story is certainly not one I shall easily forget. In truth, it…
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I’m in an attic in Brighton, trying to wedge the window open wide enough to allow the slimmest breath…
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Steve Jones was born in Aberystwyth in 1946 and studied zoology at the University of Edinburgh. As a television…
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So today I am bracing myself for the drive to Manchester in order to pick up the eldest son…
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The telephone call was to Abigail – in her mid-twenties, six weeks pregnant and with vaginal bleeding that had…
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