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Cricket: Why Can't England Defend?
Jennings: Averages 11.
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Issue Of The Week: Managing The Gig Economy
Companies such as Deliveroo and Uber have transformed employment for better and worse – creating a challenge for policymakers
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July 15, 2017
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The Feminist Who Brought 'Ms.' To The Masses
Ms: not a typo
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July 15, 2017
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Radical Poet Who Founded The Republic Of Frestonia
Williams: “there are no rules”
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July 15, 2017
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This Week's Dream: A Private Island Off Madagascar
With its unique wildlife and extraordinary history, the vast Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the world’s most “fascinating” countries.
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What The Experts Recommend
Flow Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Downtown Dubai, Dubai (04-3198767)Described as a “paleo health hub and creative work space”, Flow recently opened at Jumeirah Emirates Towers says What’s On.
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Exhibition Of The Week Fahrelnissa Zeid
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, www.tate.org). Until 8 October
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What The Scientists Are Saying...
A patch to deliver the flu vaccineA sticky patch that delivers flu vaccines into the skin via hundreds of dissolvable microneedles has been found to be safe in a key trial.
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Labour's Brexit Fudge
“Time is running out for Remainer MPs who want to prevent a hard Brexit,” said Stephen Bush in the New Statesman.
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Silicon Valley's Grand Designs
Apple, it was recently confirmed, is building a self-driving car. What else does America’s tech industry have in store for us?
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April 22, 2017
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Egypt's Christians In Peril After Vicious Crackdown
The bombing of two Egyptian churches on Palm Sunday was a massive security failure, said Aya Nader in Al-Monitor (Washington DC).
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April 22, 2017
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Father Of Our Nation
Motivate Publishing 128 pp AED95
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April 22, 2017
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Jovial Writer Whose Books Evoked A Vanished Literary World
Jeremy Lewis 1942-2017Jeremy Lewis, who has died aged 75, was a writer, editor, publisher and memoirist – and “one of the best-loved figures in the London literary world”, said The Daily Telegraph. A “Grub Street irregular”, was how he described himself. Bear-like, bespectacled and amiable, he was almost pathologically self-effacing. But his “silly ass act” – in the words of his cousin Roger Lewis – was a carapace that concealed his gifts as a writer: a perceptive observer, he wrote several acclaimed biographies, and “three splendidly funny volumes of autobiography”.
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