Ordinary Little Things of the World

Posted on by Zoe Guttenplan

This is a book so obvious that we shall all think we should have thought to write it, but I daresay that none of us could have written it quite so individually as Professor Hoggart has. It is, effectively, an audit, an exact report, of the condition of the little town of Farnham in Surrey […]

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All in Rancour, Envy And Tendentiousness

Posted on by Jonathan Beckman

When the Independent was launched in 1986 one of its better ideas was to resist the temptation to cover its pages with articles and ‘exclusives’ about the lives and loves of members of the Royal Family. At the time this may have been due to a desire to differentiate itself from The Times, where, if […]

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