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Slavery is one of the oldest and most persistent institutions of humankind. It was already well established four millennia ...

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Language, it has been said, is the only true democracy – changed by the people that use it. But as with any democracy, there ...

There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley Amis’s ...

Full of strokes and blows/ broken, pitifully wounded’, the man, naked, or almost so, stands full frontal, legs and arms ...

When I lived in south London, my Algerian barber used to tell me that he came from Souk Ahras, ‘the home town of Augustine’.

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There is nobody who finds Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, more interesting than the woman who was a teenager in the 1990s. This was the ...

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At nine minutes past eight on the evening of Monday May 26, Merseyside Police did something that no other British police ...

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