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Time for the monthly treat from David Hayes, who writes about British politics for the Australian In...
Time for the monthly treat from David Hayes, who writes about British politics for the Australian In...
The UK’s participation in the invasion of Iraq was briefly in doubt, nine days before the bomb...
Syria is such a hard case that not even Tony Blair advocates sending in troops. The debate is betwee...
27 April 2012 08:00 PM
If you walk into the heart of England, you find a society as divided as that of the metropolis
21 December 2008 12:00 AM
When I was 20 I tried to spend Christmas alone. It was a protest – of sorts – and also an actualisation of a deep and twisted disappointment in family, love, cosiness and cheer – all of which I held to be, in this the climactic period of my protracted adolescence, Yuletide lies and festering festive spirits.
04 October 2008 12:00 AM
In Ibiza the night proceeds according to plan: we set off in convoy, several cars full of us. True, we're going to a party in a swanky villa on the other side of the island, but while half our company are teenaged, the rest of us are past the age when we can do any raving – except against the dying of the light. Then: solid darkness, with headlights gouging it out to expose switchback roads and useless signs. The mobile phone calls begin: like the echo location of decadent bats. Some Ibizan parties can be found by following lizards stencilled on walls, others by pink balloons, but the turning for this one – or so we're assured through the ether – will be clear to us because of a strategically placed pile of three white phones.
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