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Westminster’s WhatsApp deletion drive
Future political historians will have to dig for messages that evaded the automatic cull
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England is in a state
Amanda Craig’s new novel offers a snapshot of a society reeling from insecurity and division
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What did the Black Death ever do for us?
A history of the Black Death overlooks its more surprising developments
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Living with and without Paul Auster
Siri Hustvedt’s reflections on the death of her husband offer a wise meditation on grief and its many mutations
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How to live without a fridge
It’s all fine – until summer comes
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Shut up and drive
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The myth of English insularity
Tudor and Stuart England was more a porous nation than a sceptred isle
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