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How Britain got addicted to bookies’ betting terminals: TBIJ

It’s 10am and already there’s a knot of men at the back of the betting shop. The strip-lit space is filled with the chatter of racing commentary, but the clients aren’t paying…
PUBLISHED: July 24, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2905 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)
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