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June 2018

Bloody scandal

Bloody scandal

In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up
June 25, 2018
An American Turner?

An American Turner?

The National Gallery exhibition shows that Thomas Cole, like Turner and John Martin, was a visionary and a pictorial dramatist
June 25, 2018
Past imperfect

Past imperfect

"Before the screening, I made bold to ask the audience not to refrain from laughter. They were nice enough to obey my incitement"
June 25, 2018
Spy who went into the cold

Spy who went into the cold

Roland Philipps makes a strong case that Donald Maclean was, from the Soviet point of view, the most valuables spy of the Cambridge Five
June 25, 2018
The boy in the ice-cream shop

The boy in the ice-cream shop

Was Hans Asperger a benevolent and humane doctor? Or was he deeply implicated in Nazi psychiatry and its darkest episode, euthanasia?
June 25, 2018
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