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[ad_1] Liz Truss’s book, Ten Years to Save the West, should make for painful reading. It is the work of the shortest-serving prime minister, beaten by a lettuce, who refuses to offer much self-reflection or apology as she looks back over her political career so far. The fact she has written this book at all…

[ad_1] Molly Lewis often finds herself having to explain her job to people. “Only every time I tell anyone what I do,” she says with a smile. It is perhaps inevitable when that thing is professional whistling. “It’s an unusual and niche thing,” she admits. “People don’t think it’s something musical or something one can…

[ad_1] So often, police shows are all about the double act. Broadchurch, True Detective, Unforgiven, The Bridge, The Wire – all of these understand the dramatic potential of two people sat in a car for hours on end, enduring the simultaneous mundanity and peril of fighting crime. It isn’t just tried and tested; it is…

[ad_1] Did you know that Thomas Hardy’s heart was removed after his death in 1928 so it could be placed in his family burial ground, while the rest of him went to Westminster Abbey? And that one of his beloved cats, coming upon the heart that had been popped into a biscuit tin after removal…

[ad_1] Yinka Shonibare CBE wears that title, pointedly, as part of his name. The artist declares himself a Commander of the British Empire in full knowledge of the historical legacy and contemporary friction the title carries. Over a 40-year career, Shonibare has explored the impact of imperialism and millennia-long histories of cultural exchange. As a…