Geordie Greig
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William Boydâs Cold Sunset captures the delicious moral ambiguity of the spy novel (opens the original)
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William Boyd understands one of the great paradoxes of the spy novel: that it can be morally serious and lightly entertaining at the same time. Cold Sunset, the third novel in his Gabriel Dax trilogy, finds him somewhere between Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming â Ambler in his fascination with betrayal, compromised loyalties and the corrosive absence of trust; Fleming in his relish for sex, drink, danger and the seductive suspension of ordinary moral rules. Gabriel Dax is an unlikely hero, which is
âProlier-than-thou!â Burnham accused of playing up working class roots. (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham has been accused of being âprolier-than-thouâ by using his working class roots to win votes. Political novelist Robert Harris, a lifelong Labour supporter, has told The Independent he deplores attempts by the prime minister to appear more âproletarianâ than he is. Harris called it a âprolier-than-thouâ attitude â political slang based on the phrase âholier-than-thouâ â a hypocrite who claims they are more authentically working class than others. Since entering No
Sadhguruâs mission to reach three billion young people one festival at a time (opens the original)
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As Sting prepares to take the stage at one of Europeâs biggest music festivals in Romania, another headline act will deliver a very different performance. Spiritual leader and Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru will spend just one day at The UNTOLD Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, before flying back to India, using the event to promote what he believes could transform the lives of young people worldwide: seven minutes of daily meditation. The festival runs from 6â9 August and according to the
Nick Rhodes reveals how Mick Jagger saved Duran Duran (opens the original)
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For almost 50 years Nick Rhodes has been the charismatic and groundbreaking dandy in Duran Duran. With the blond hair and eye makeup of the 1980s New Romantic he wears to this day, he stood out long before the style became fashionable. And not just because of his androgynous appearance. Rhodes not only pioneered the use of synthesisers to compose classic pop anthems, but also the art of creating spectacular videos to showcase them. Duran Duran have sold 100 million records since forming in Birmi
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