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Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: ‘It’s just like being in a band’

The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel • M John Harrison becomes the first science fiction author to win the Booker prize Judging the Booker prize is like being in a band. A band will often bring together a very disparate set of people, their only thing in common the fact they’re in the same group. And a good band takes account of the interests and strengths of its members – that’s how you get a unique sound. Being part of this year’s Booker prize judging panel – chaired by Mary B

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Política

Will the Trump-supporting UK right share in his ignominy? No, it’s too dishonest for that | Polly Toynbee

Sustained not by public opinion but by billionaire media owners, British rightwing commentators will embrace a Maga successor, not moderation Hallelujahs and hosannas have been echoing around the democratic world over the last few weeks. The White House madman is a loser. Rejoice at Serbia, Hungary, Brazil and hold our breath for Israel. Take heart from our best historians’ encouragements. Margaret MacMillan wrote in the Observer: “And now we can hope these elections will bring an end to cruelty, naked greed, contempt for decency, and the relentless vulgarity that tries to pass for boldness an

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A flaccid roam through Bloomsbury’s desperately mediocre modernists: Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant review

Tate Britain, London Trying to present these two as pioneers of British art is fruitless: their lives, sexualities and the Picasso and Cézanne paintings in their home were more exciting than what’s here The Bloomsbury Group once induced yawns as the smug epitome of a snobbish high culture but they’re now admired for their feminism and queer abandon. There’s a West End play about the loves of the Bloomsbury economist John Maynard Keynes and if you visit the National Trust’s Sissinghurst, its flowerbeds are set alight by Vita Sackville-West’s affair with Virginia Woolf. But biography can’t set a

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Los británicos almacenan agua y latas de comida, pero no hacen compras de pánico, según muestran las cifras

Los compradores parecen haber tomado en serio la campaña Be Ready del gobierno, dicen los analistas minoristas Business live – últimas actualizaciones Los compradores británicos han estado abasteciéndose de productos básicos como agua embotellada, productos enlatados y desinfectante para manos, pero no entraron en pánico cuando el gobierno aconsejó a la gente que se preparara para emergencias, según muestran los datos sobre compras. Las ventas de artículos de primera necesidad aumentaron diez días después de que el gobierno lanzara su campaña Be Ready, que anima a los hogares a prepararse durante hasta tres días en caso de que se interrumpan los servicios esenciales debido a incidentes como ciberataques o condiciones climáticas extremas.

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