There is a scene in The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh’s novella of 1948, that takes place at a fictional pet cemetery in Los Angeles called the Happier Hunting Ground.
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FT Magazine end of year review: what happened next in the Ouzo story
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I remember the radio broadcast – three bodies found in the Channel, a yacht missing.
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Climate change has done little, so far, to make the waters of the Lake District or the English Channel any less numbingly cold.
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Is “free swimming” a government gimmick or a genuine boost to the nation’s health?
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Heidi Holland’s biography of Robert Mugabe does something deeply unsettling - it makes me feel the dictator’s pain.
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I’m standing on a sunny playing field in a corner of post industrial Kent, trying to take in the fact that what I’m watching is a football revolution.
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In 1975, an idealistic 17-year-old leaves the small Norwegian town of Stavanger to help the poor and wretched in Colombia.
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Democracy’s jet-lagged volunteers stumble out of Simon Bolivar international airport into the full glare of the Venezuelan sun.
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Twenty feet down through the hazy blue of the Caribbean, several lean, grey Zeppelins cruise silently by.
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