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American Blunders

Taki F rom my open window in Cadogan Gardens I can hear a woman’s lovely voice singing something from Mozart’s Requiem ; at least I think it’s Mozart’s oeuvre. One can never go......

Bonfire Diplomacy

Jeremy Clarke T he authorities — my mother, her sister, and my mother’s cousin; combined age 230; one deaf, one inarticulate, one amnesiac; all three beset by small irrational......