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Blown away by Tracey Emin

August 21, 2011

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Yesterday I went to the Tracey Emin exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which has just over a week to run. I was totally blown away. On top of that, I realised, with a feeling of regret and almost shame, that over the years I have missed huge chunks of her work. This was echoed by […]

Actually, why weren’t more of us rioting?

August 9, 2011

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I was very fortunate, last night, not to be living near any shops. The rioters got to within a few hundred yards of me but no nearer. After five hours on Twitter, watching buildings being burned to the ground on the news, I was starting to wonder where the army were. Eventually I dragged myself […]

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