Helen Lewis
helenlewis
Recently, I've been researching the life of Picasso: great artist, truly appalling human. In the early 1900s, before painting Demoiselles, he and his lover Fernande Olivier lived in a draughty
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My main takeaway from the elections is: I'm not sure these results tell us much beyond a) confirming existing structural trends; b) incumbency bonus is a real thing when you've
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Take two on what I was trying to say yesterday: Corbyn has always been a politician with a dim view of parliament's ability to convert Britain to socialism. See this
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Thread (sorry). This piece by @TomMcTague was the best thing I read yesterday on John Hume, because instead of hailing him as a saint, it explored the compromises he had
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