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Subtopia

Not modern any more, the London buildings that Ian Na irn wrote about in the early `1960s have been eclipsed by The Shard and 22 Bishopsgate and wonkily-shaped edifices christened with names like Gherkin, Walkie Talkie and Cheesegrater.   Sean Sheehan   Nairn would have liked the nicknames more than […]

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Poll that cast doubts and shadows

“Rigged opinion polls, anti-democratic conditions, errors of strategy, dirty campaigning and the electoral dynamics of recent history are the big areas of variables that allow us to understand…how a fraudulent legitimisation of neo-liberalism and authoritarianism in Ecuador was manufactured.”   These are the words of the sociologist Agustín Burbano referring […]

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Empty-headed people

Jonathan Meades was once a familiar face on television, especially on the BBC, in documentaries about architecture and the built environments of Britain.   Sean Sheehan   He has long been a journalist and a writer of fiction so the publication of “Empty wigs”, a collection of short stories, should […]