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Lessons from Hitchcock: what 'Sabotage' could teach today's fractious society
An almost 90-year-old film has startling relevance to a Britain suffering from foreign interference that stirs internal strife. By Adam Jezard
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From A(ndromeda) to Z(ardoz): your guide to surviving the techbros' growth myth
It's time to look behind the curtain and ask what the Silicon Valley wizards pushing hi-tech fantasies are really up to - and if it benefits the rest of…
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How slowing down can make you happier and help you survive the apocalypse
Adam Jezard's tongue-in-cheek guide to deceleration, degrowth, lying flat, resigning greatly and how Sci-Fi might hold the key to humanity's survival…
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Mirages and Fallen Angels: warnings from the McCarthy era echo down the years
The stories of how a book was written, a film made, and of an advert in a paperback, all from over 50 years ago, are still important today, says Adam…
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The orange emperor and his recipe for global disaster
Trumpians have a plan - sort of - to recreate the warring states of ancient Greece and Rome. And it could lead to a mass human extinction. By Adam…
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A round-up of the 70s' best Draculas
In preparation for the new Nosferatu, which is dull, overlong and overhyped, I reviewed the best 1970s' retellings of Stoker's story.
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Mean Spirits
Right-wing ghosts have left Heaven thanks to Hexit and are perverting the spirit of Christmas. Seasonal satire, with apologies to Charles Dickens, by…
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