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From GCSEs to global English: A personal reflection on language

What’s on your bedside table? Earplugs? Headache tablets? Eye mask? Virginia Woolf’s keeping me company right now, along with a watch, my mobile phone, and truthfully, my GCSE and A-level results – buried under Hemingway and Isherwood. Printed on wafer thin paper from the days when they were still typed. It’s a kind of memento mori – every morning I’m reminded of those fateful results days. Keeps me on the straight and narrow.

31st, May 2025, 05:00pm

An exceptional pub lunch at the Friar's Oak, Hassocks

In recent years I’ve had some truly terrible Sunday roasts at pubs in Sussex but my faith has been restored somewhat following a visit to Hassocks at the start of May, writes Nick Mosley.

31st, May 2025, 05:00pm

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