Tanjil Rashid
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- Sep 23, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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The real reason grammar schools are full of immigrant children (opens the original)
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It’s Saturday morning and my mother is spraying cold water in my face, her preferred form of parental violence. I have to get up and go to school. I’m 11, and I’ve been dreading this day. “Lord, magnify me in knowledge,” I hum nervously in Arabic. My father is tense. For weeks now he’s been driving out to the school to recce the location, to master all possible routes. I am not going to my usual school, you see, and this isn’t a school day: I am being taken to the edge of London to sit the eleve
Simon Sebag Montefiore on Israel, Gaza and a Middle East in crisis (opens the original)
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Simon Sebag Montefiore is one of Britain’s most popular historians, the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction, on historical themes. Long known as an expert in the history of Russia from Catherine the Great to Stalin, Montefiore also has a longstanding interest in the Middle East, which he attributes in part to his ancestry in the region – in particular the Montefiore family’s role in reviving the Jewish community of Jerusalem in the 19th century. His latest book, The Cauldro
Daniel Mendelsohn: "The Odyssey is a blueprint for all comedy" (opens the original)
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Daniel Mendelsohn is a literary polymath; he writes memoirs, monographs, literary and film criticism, edits the New York Review of Books (at large) and translates poetry both modern – three volumes of Cavafy – and now ancient, since his rendering of the Odyssey was recently published in the UK for Penguin Classics. It will probably be the authoritative translation for years to come. An American who teaches at Bard College in New York, he is the opposite of the stuffy ivory tower classical schola
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