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...The area has lured everyone from Jack Kerouac to Dave Eggers, and from Allen Ginsberg to The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir....
...Winston Churchill was certainly not misty-eyed for the modernity of new towns and welfare statism: “All this stuff about planning and compensation and betterment. Broad vistas and all that....
...Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles, Allen Lane £25, 320 pages Misha Glenny is rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna Join our online book group on Facebook at FT...
...For, despite the misty-eyed fogeysim of those who waffle about “a land of Liberty”, England is better regarded as a land of liberties, in the plural....
...Other than heady and misty invocations of Magna Carta, it does not see the need for any overall legal framework that enables the citizen to rely on their rights against state power....
...Pub groups cannot afford to be misty-eyed over a pub’s heritage. When asked whether he felt any responsibility to find a buyer willing to keep a pub operating, one pub chief replied simply: “No.”...
...At Oxford university’s Environmental Change Institute, Professor Myles Allen says it makes sense to think in terms of probability....
...By Paul Davies Allen Lane £20, 260 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 How to Find a Habitable Planet By James Kasting Princeton University Press, £20.95, 326 pages FT Bookshop price: £16.76 We Are Not Alone...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual arts critic and author of ‘Chagall: Love and Exile’ (Allen Lane)...
...Don’t knock masturbation, said Woody Allen, the era’s most acute chronicler: it’s sex with the one you love. Yet the report makes a confident case. It is based on three main ideas....
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