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Thursday 15 September 2005
A hymn to wishful thinking
Why is everyone singing the praises of Blake's 'Jerusalem', the official anthem to England's Ashes victory?

Friday 24 June 2005
Glastonbury: It’s only rock’n'roll
Keep sanctimonious ethics out of music festivals.

Monday 14 February 2005
Love’s arrow misses the mark
On Valentine's Day: have we become too uptight to fall head over heels?

Thursday 16 December 2004
Needling diabetics
Disease becomes fetishised around individual behaviour and experience.

Tuesday 9 November 2004
Are you being served?
London’s Selfridges used to showcase the splendours of the world. Today it feeds the fantasy of ‘me’.

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