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    Feb 28, 2019
    This week’s cartoon by Ella Baron: ‘A Figure of Speech’. How many can you find?
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    Dec 19, 2022
    'I am delighted to announce that I have just been awarded the right to drive my sheep across London Bridge, toll-free.' (@wmarybeard)
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    Freedom of the City
    I am delighted to announce that I have just been awarded the right to drive my sheep across London Bridge, toll-free. Roughly translated, that means I have been awarded the Freedom of the City of...
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    May 23, 2019
    An essay by Judith Kerr (1923–2019) explaining the lasting impact of her multi-lingual childhood on her relationship with language. First published in the TLS in 1975
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    Writing with borrowed words
    An essay by Judith Kerr, who died recently, explaining the lasting impact of her multi-lingual childhood on her relationship with language. First published in the TLS in 1975
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    Mar 3, 2023
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    Jul 8, 2016
    The TLS would like to take this opportunity to apologise to the blobfish community.
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    Jul 12, 2017
    Let us be clear: @mrjamesob on Brexit and the aftermath of the election
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    Mar 29, 2022
    'Catalonia has never stopped demanding the power of self-articulation, and Spain has never granted it.'
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    A polyphonic homage to Catalonia
    The German philosopher Ferdinand Tönnies characterized heimat (which loosely means “homeland”), as “a living substance that … persists in the never-ending
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    Aug 21, 2019
    The ‘furious absurdism’ of @Coldwar_Steve the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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    May 18, 2022
    'Only when a nation allows the streaker to take over the game does everyone suddenly remember how vital the rules were and how essential the role of the referee' @EdwardDocx on Boris Johnson’s Theatre of the Absurd the-tls.co.uk/articles/held-…
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    Mar 10, 2021
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    Apr 8, 2020
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    Jan 31, 2018
    "In Britain we like to point the finger at America for its record on racism. It is only when writers such as @afuahirsch and @renireni are given a platform that we are forced to confront how it plays out on home ground" timesl.it/6019D3QWc
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    Jan 20, 2023
    'The bottom line is that there are thousands of kids in this country who get none of the arts education that people of my generation – whatever kind of school they went to – took for granted.' (@wmarybeard) the-tls.co.uk/articles/at-th…
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    Jul 18, 2023
    'When you study the humanities you learn a crucial skill: namely, how to argue well, and responsibly, on the basis of inadequate evidence. That sounds a bit banal perhaps. But it is in fact one of the ... foundations of the democratic process' (... the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-w…
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