Monarch of muscle
Victorian strongman Eugen Sandow was thought to possess the perfect male body. Like Oscar Wilde, he is essential to understanding modern manhood
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The way we were
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Rescuing philosophy from Monty Python
From Thursday next week, a large chunk of Britain’s intelligentsia will be converging on Hay-on-Wye to hear, speak to and debate with some of the country’s—indeed the world’s—leading thinkers. The Hay festival has long been a staple of the literary calendar, and this year Prospect’s editor Bronwen Maddox will interview... -
The way we were: Election night
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The write stuff
Creative writing courses once suffered a similar reputation to media studies. But as their alumni start to swell the ranks of the literary elite, this is changing -
The new Royal Shakespeare theatre: thrusting into the future
After a three-year, £112m renovation, today the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Statford-upon-Avon once again opens its doors to the public. My old friend Professor Stanley Wells was on the ten o’clock news last night, raining on the RSC’s parade as they showed off their new theatre to the world’s press.... -
Matters of taste
I spent a week helping in a restaurant kitchen in Sardinia. I learned how to make ravioli—and that there is no real mystery to great food -
Election 2010: how telly let us down
The 24-hour news cycle and the televised leadership debates have reduced politics to numbers and soundbites. You'll learn more about Britain today from the BBC's new sitcom
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