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Now that the conference season is over, we can compare not just the party policies, but their logos too. Last…
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The odds were a hundred to one against him. Brought up in bourgeois Bayswater by genteel parents, Cecil Beaton was…
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Has a more beautiful machine in all of mankind’s fretful material endeavours ever been made than a ’60 Ferrari 250…
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Batsford has just brought out a huge tome on Nova — ‘one of the most influential magazines in history’ —…
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