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London mauling: Kangaroos return to rule roost with harsh lesson for England

Australia enjoy a field day swatting away rivals in latest punt of NRL’s mission to make rugby league a global sport

The Guardian - UK

Clive Wilmer obituary

Poet and scholar who promoted the work of John Ruskin and edited a selection of Thom Gunn’s essays

The Guardian - UK

Ex-CIA director Leon Panetta ‘hopeful’ that Trump will be more Reagan than ‘America First’ on national security

Vastly experienced former defense secretary who allowed women into combat is braced for backlash but feels ‘deep, deep down in my guts’ that norms will hold

The Guardian - US

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OPINION - Martin Amis was by far the greatest chronicler of London since Dickens

God, I loved Martin Amis. There’s a video on YouTube that I must have watched a dozen times, where he’s lounging in a library with Clive James, puffing cigarettes and talking books.

Evening Standard

Quizzing celebrity castaways on their desert island pin-ups, 1983

For Clive James it was Rita Hayworth; Dame Edna chose ‘snake-hips Strachey’

The Guardian - UK

‘A newspaperman to his fingertips’: late Observer editor Donald Trelford remembered

Colleagues recall the former editor, who died last week – a consummate journalist who carried the flame of liberalism in an uncertain age

The Guardian - UK

Black teachers, trans women, cleaners and cons: how the BBC’s Open Door allowed ‘real people’ to let rip

It ran for a decade and infuriated the rightwing press, giving a voice to marginalised Britain. Now a new show is celebrating the extraordinarily prescient Open Door series

The Guardian - UK

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How crime fiction went global, embracing themes from decolonisation to climate change

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

The Conversation

Clive James goes to Wimbledon, 1981

What would the Australian writer’s caustic wit make of John McEnroe’s tantrums? By Chris Hall

The Guardian - UK

Anne Howells: British mezzo-soprano who conquered the world stage

With a powerful voice and a talent for acting as well as singing, Howells was one of a select group of British performers to achieve international prominence

The Independent UK

In her gracious acceptance of death, Deborah James has given us lessons in how to live

None of us truly knows how we will behave when the inevitable gets ever closer. Facing it squarely might allow us to savour those final moments

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