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'They call me the Father of Loud'

‘The Marshall sound is the balls’ … Paul Weller with his Marshall stack in 1981. Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns At the Marshall amplifier factory in Milton Keynes, there's a…
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1535 words)

Jamie Oliver's Fifteen

High on a wall at one end of Fifteen Cornwall's dining room is the man's signature, large, loopy, bright pink and with a big smacker of an x beneath: Jamie O. There's no escaping him here, his…
AUTHOR:Jon Henley
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1976 words)

Swaziland's vibrant tourist industry masks a hunger for democracy

Culture and tradition are big selling points for Swaziland. Tourists looking for "the real Africa" are encouraged to see the big five wild animals on safari, visit villages or witness the…
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2035 words)

the man who stood witness for the world

One evening – we are not given a date, but it must be the early 1960s – the great French philosopher, essayist, novelist and pioneer of feminism Simone de Beauvoir was, as so often, at…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4084 words)

Is the food revolution just a great big fat lie?

In the second half of the 20th century, western consumers were treated to an unprecedented array of high-quality, low-cost food. Monochrome national cuisines were spiced up by immigration,…
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3117 words)

Azealia Banks and the charge of the women MCs

It's typical. You wait years for a frank and fearless female rapper, and then five come at once. Maybe it's something in the air, or simply that the success of Nicki Minaj has opened the floodgates…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1708 words)
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