How to save the rave, p14
Angry white people, p37
From green to Amber, p24
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Students vs Athenians 17 Rod Liddle How I know
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Labour’s squeezed middle 28 Hugo Rifkind Gadget fatigue 29 Letters Stepford students, rebel
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Brexit and the budget Martin Vander Weyer
12 Who killed murder?
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Killers are now easier to catch Gary Bell QC 14 Bored of the dance
Why I’m quitting the rave scene George Hull 18 Desperate straits
People-smugglers talk Turkey Yvo Fitzherbert 20 I love political correctness
My disabled son changed my mind Simon Barnes 23 Vote for freedom!
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BOOKS 32 Andrew Motion Aeneid Book VI,
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Slow Burn City, by Rowan Moore 36 Jason Webster
The Last Days of the Spanish Republic, by Paul Preston Charlotte Moore
Love Like Salt, by Helen Stevenson 37 Rod Liddle Angry White People,
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Henry IV, by Chris Given-Wilson 39 William Leith Stars, Cars and
Crystal Meth, by Jack Sutherland A.D. Miller The Senility of
Vladimir P, by Michael Honig Alan Dixon
‘A Useful Meeting’: a poem 41 Andrew Barrow Better Living through Criticism, by A.O. Scott
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