june 2021 Issue 497 £4.50

Travellers in Antique Lands Sarah Watling

the end of meritocracy? Darrin M McMahon pope takes on grub street Freya Johnston the hitman cometh Jonathan Meades five minutes to armageddon Lawrence Freedman ode to orkney John Burnside

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