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  • Friday, 29 January, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘Catullus’ Bedspread’, by Daisy Dunn

    An imaginative journey into the life and work of an elusive Roman poet

  • Friday, 17 April, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The Slow Lane: The Last Word

    After 11 years, Harry Eyres’ column has come to an end. Here’s his first, from January 17, 2004

  • Friday, 17 April, 2015
    Life & Arts
    Thanks for taking a slow walk with me

    Through this column, connections have been made and the conversation has broadened

  • Friday, 10 April, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The Slow Lane: Dangerous minds

    Isis could be seen as a vast and terrifying collective outbreak of the Freudian concept of ‘acting out’

  • Friday, 3 April, 2015
    Life & Arts
    Horace – the best self-help there is

    It is that forging and tempering that makes the poet’s utterances strong and flexible

  • Friday, 27 March, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Same street, new perspective

    The quiet streets have that special Viennese quality of grandeur combined with melancholy and nostalgia

  • Friday, 20 March, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Inspiration v perspiration

    Perhaps a lot of rugby has always been prosaic but I struggle to recall such a dearth of poetry

  • Friday, 13 March, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The Slow Lane: Culture brings its own riches

    Participation in the arts has a hugely positive impact on people’s health and wellbeing

  • Friday, 6 March, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Sharp satire isn’t all it seems

    Caricaturist James Gillray was arrested over a print showing politicians kissing a new royal baby’s backside

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    The Slow Lane: Ghosts of school days past

    As I approached the hall where the relics of our vintage were assembled, I heard an unspirit-like roar

  • Friday, 6 February, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Dumplings and humanity

    Taipei’s MRT is the only underground railway where someone has offered to tie up my shoelace

  • Friday, 30 January, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Where myths match reality

    The story of Sisyphus compares quite well with the experience of zero-hours contracts

  • Friday, 16 January, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Gifts from the court of Federer

    The extraordinary thing about Roger Federer is that he still loves playing tennis after all these years

  • Friday, 2 January, 2015
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    The Slow Lane: Have you got your shame face on?

    Feelings of shame, unlike other emotions, are difficult to hide

  • Friday, 19 December, 2014
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    The Slow Lane: Winter as a wonderland

    ‘There is a unique beauty to this time of year. Everything looks ghostly in the dense, opaque air’

  • Friday, 5 December, 2014
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    The Slow Lane: True nature of the new greens

    Have we gone from protecting nature to managing it on behalf of the Earth’s dominant species?

  • Friday, 28 November, 2014
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    The Slow Lane: Class acts

    Mussorgsky and Toulouse-Lautrec reached out to people treated as extras rather than full human subjects

  • Friday, 21 November, 2014
    Life & Arts
    The Slow Lane: An appeal to our modern-day prophets

    Too many poets have turned inward, speaking to their fellows rather than to the wider world

  • Friday, 14 November, 2014
    Life & Arts
    The Slow Lane: The big questions of sport

    This is about reminding ourselves that we are animals, not adjuncts to computer terminals

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    The Slow Lane: Ancient lessons for modern lives

    There are profound reasons for studying the languages, literature and civilisations of the Greeks and Romans

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    The Slow Lane: Common censorship

    Three recent decisions have brought this issue into focus – and all three are lamentable and incoherent

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    Victor Erice is one of those rare film directors who show time passing apparently at its own pace

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    The Slow Lane: World leader in the art of living

    Paris is organised around culture to a degree unimaginable in mercantile, muddled-up London

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    Life & Arts
    The Slow Lane: The secret garden with healing properties

    Kew may be 70 times bigger than the Physic Garden, but historically Chelsea is the mother ship

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