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Lucy Jones

Lucy Jones is a journalist and author. She writes for The Independent about television, music, film and books. Her first book 'Foxes Unearthed' received the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award.     

<p>The arena fills with their harmonies, each aspect of every song a crucial element in the band’s equilibrium</p>

Radiohead’s music makes feeling alienated feel less alienating

<p>Rachel Cusk’s ‘A Life’s Work’ saw her dismissed as a ‘bad mother’ when it was first published </p>

How Rachel Cusk’s divisive parenting book saved me in early motherhood

<p>Olivia Laing in their Suffolk garden</p>

Olivia Laing on the politics of gardens: ‘A garden is a rebel state’

<p>A mighty trio: Cat Deeley, Ant and Dec on ‘SM:TV Live’ </p>

SM:TV Live was the Saturday morning joy that couldn’t exist today

Recently, parents removed their son from a school in the South of England, after it allowed another child to express their gender freely

Schools must do more to challenge gender stereotypes

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'Yes sir, I can boogie...'

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You must have bubbles for brains

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Artists to boycott New York show

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Check-in time at the heartbreak hotel

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Russia: Where Lenin meets Buddha

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