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Mild Swimming
Reporting live on Photogenica Moneyshire, last seen at Highgate Ponds.
23 May 2020
Politics: Off Grid
An employee at Broadcasting House reveals the inner workings of Auntie Beeb‘s factual programming.
5 May 2020
Conversations with Friends about Sally Rooney
An epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist, the novels, the publishers and me.
2 March 2020
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, iPhone Addict
Thence I to my office, and all afternoon opening and closing the Guardian homepage.
24 February 2020
Flann at the Pub
Our correspondent, Flann O’Brien, tours Westminster, bringing us news, views, and change from a twenty, depending on your round.
23 February 2020
London Train Stations as Serial Killers
A conceit upon the history of our rail service.
23 February 2020
Diary of an Urban Parson: Rev. Refreshed
Excerpts from the prayer-journal of the Rev J.J Cowan MA (Oxon), Vicar of St Ewolds, Stoke Newington.
1 February 2020
Chef Bites Back: Giles Coren
Food critics love to dish it out – and make a tidy sum doing so – but no one puts them under the spotlight. Until now.
1 February 2020
English Lit. Canon and their Current Views on Brexit
Daniel Defoe photoshops Marina Hyde articles, and Chaucer just has a bizarre obsession with Anna Soubry.
23 December 2019Flann in the Club
In which our Westminster correspondent attends a centrist club night at Mahiki.
17 October 2019
12 Rules for Getting Your First Book Published
Our literary maven tells you how to get published.
1 July 2019
Evelyn Waugh: Fictive Seer
Examining the links between England's leading post-war novelist and Brexit.
5 May 2019