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When I got to the concert house, she was already there. And only her, strolling around the Gendarmenmarkt with no one else in sight, twirling her umbrella as she made circuits of the sandy square in the soft summer l...

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The Labour Party at the height of self-indulgence

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What is hopeful about Zack Polanski?

Ash Sarkar and Zack Polanski 1, EartH, Hackney, London, UK. 17.11.2026. Photo by Cory Doctorow under a CC 4.0 license

The Green Party of England and Wales has an official policy of seeking ‘the effective abolition of private landlordism’....

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We are all Evangelos Marinakis now

I’d like to write more about politics on here, but failing that, the best way is to get someone else to do it for me. So I’m delighted to welcome back to take us through a rather brilliant sustained comparison between Evangelos Marinakis,...

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Four things I like about Brussels

Making the best of the Belgian metropole

I realise that my newsletter, to the extent that I’ve touched upon my current place of residence, may have sounded a slightly negative tone on the Belgian capital. For it’s true, that having come he...

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