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1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Susannah Clapp

   Susannah Clapp · To the Dacha (opens the original)

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   As​ a child I worried about the Russian Revolution. After all, it failed. At least that’s what schoolfriends, teachers and neighbours said. Yet I knew believers: my parents and a small core of companions who flew the red flag in improbable outposts, first Bath, then the London suburbs. Up to his death in the mid-1980s my dad, far more hardline than my mother, went each year to the GDR in search of a communist society: caustic about English newspaper accounts, open to what he read in the bulky Ea

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2. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Susannah Clapp

   Susannah Clapp · At Dungeness (opens the original)

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   Here is​ an antidote to current traps and poisons. People who rescue rather than attack, who move in a physical, not a virtual, world, who don’t morally triage others. Who put themselves in danger without aiming to get famous or on television. Who risk their lives without being paid. Dominic Gregory has worked as an adviser to literary estates, including Roald Dahl’s, and run a literary festival. His impressive first book, Lifeboat at the End of the World (HarperCollins, £18.99), is an account o

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