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ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
I think I was the usual 16-year-old – any time between 14 and about 18 is a really bad time if you’re a boy. You think you know everything but actually you know very little. And the world doesn’t treat you as if you know everything, so it’s a very fr
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Film
Since Westerns first started weaving celluloid tales of cowboys and ‘Indians’ in the early 20th century, they have acted as a sort of origin story for the United States. “It’s a kind of justification” for the settlers’ treatment of Native American pe
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Editor’s Letter
It was like transfer deadline day. Everywhere on Wednesday last week there was fevered speculation about whether or not a general election would be called. And when I say EVERYWHERE, I mean on some Twitter accounts that then copied other Twitter acco

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