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...Spencer cites George Orwell’s and Roald Dahl’s memoirs of their boarding school days from a couple of generations earlier; the genre has continued to grow, recently including Musa Okwonga’s One of Them:...
...In the bitter 2019 election campaign, a Conservative party broadcast saw Boris Johnson restage a scene from Love Actually....
...Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel Glass Onion is no less unforgiving....
...Earlier this month the Roald Amundsen, a battery-hybrid ship operated by Norwegian line Hurtigruten, reached the white continent for the first time this season....
...Where does Boris Johnson’s acute dislike of Department for International Development (Report, June 17) come from?...
...Taking a bath in Smith’s bathroom would feel like splashing around in Roald Dahl’s writing shed....
...C: Who was the prime minister before Boris Johnson? A: Jade, Perrie, Leigh-Anne and Jesy are the four members of which band? B: What kind of crocodile did Roald Dahl write about?...
...Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother, edited by Donald Sturrock, John Murray, RRP£30 A collection published ahead of the centenary of the late British children’s author on September 13....
...Perhaps I should be horrified that the clever kids I met were sounding more like Roald Dahl than mathematicians. But I am not....
...The company likes to say that its 800 global “industry partners” – these are the names visitors see inside KidZania, including Nestlé, American Airlines, Mitsubishi, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, Unilever and...
...Perhaps I should be horrified that the clever kids I met were sounding more like Roald Dahl than mathematicians....
...Alex Johnson is a writer in St Albans, north of London....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s US media editor...
...I’m intrigued that the new Labour leader, Kim Jung Ed, has appointed Alan Johnson as shadow chancellor....
...Roald Dahl meanwhile fabulated his mean and magical tales in a little white cottage in the grounds of his Gypsy House; Philip Pullman famously brewed His Dark Materials in a shack at the bottom of his Oxford...
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