| Dear reader,
As Greater Manchester continues to hold out against a Tier 3 lockdown, England’s coronavirus response appears to be in complete chaos. With a second wave well under way, the country has found itself trapped between two strategies and faces the worst of both worlds, writes Paul Nuki. He explains what went wrong in this excellent analysis.
Britain’s culture wars are as heated as ever, and few institutions are more central to the fight than museums. For this fascinating piece, Martin Fletcher spent time at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and spoke to all sides of the debate to find out what “decolonisation” really means for our museums and whether the nation’s great collections can survive.
Martin and Shirlie Kemp were, in the late Eighties, a true pop power couple. Yet just a few years later, Martin found himself undergoing multiple surgeries to remove brain tumours and close to bankruptcy. A quarter of a century on, the couple have rebuilt their lives and careers and they sat down with Louise Gannon to talk about how they survived that dark period.
Finally, Prue Leith was a late convert to gardening, but a zealous one nonetheless. In this touching piece, she writes of how and why she came to love the pastime, having once regarded it only professionally, and talks us through the wonderful idiosyncrasies that 40 years of tinkering have created in her own garden.
Chris
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