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The £2.50 lunch that’s saving the world

A friend and I had lunch together today. Choosing from the menu, I said “Shall we go for the extravagant option?” But we weren't being outrageous; quite the opposite. In this context, the “extravagant” option cost £2.50 – approximately...

“The risk is worth it”: Carrie review

Now that I’ve had time to process Mike Flanagan’s Carrie - and time to read some of the angrier responses to the liberties Flanagan has taken with Stephen King’s original source material - I have to say this Prime show is very, very good....

Taylor Swift: my database of her 123,553 lyrics reveals hidden patterns

Naomi Adam, University of Liverpool “It seems like all I ever do is change”, Taylor Swift writes in the prologue to the bestselling album 1989 (Taylor’s Version), released in 2014. In fact, change is a core part of the Swift marketing machine,...

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