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Academics’ union calls offer a ‘descent into parody’ while mosques complain about C of E special treatmentIt is meant to remind Britons of the “example set by our ultimate public servant”, but a £4.4m government scheme to send out free portraits of C...
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A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banalityIt’s hard to be objective about an artist you like as a person. I recently met the painter Jonathan Yeo – w...
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Plans for 2,500 new homes outside the historic market town of Faversham have gone down badly with some residents. But the UK needs housing, and this is a promising site…“We’re all proud to have a king,” laments a resident of Faversham in Kent, “but w...
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1 month ago
Spencer’s shocking and moving account of abuse at a boarding school combines righteous anger with therapeutic honestyMaidwell Hall school, Northamptonshire, 1972. The chief abuser is the headmaster, Jack Porch, who keeps two canes in his study, the F...