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    • Friday, 29 January, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet’, by Daisy Dunn

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

    • Friday, 17 April, 2015
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      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
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      The Slow Lane: Thanks for taking a slow walk with me

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

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

    • Friday, 3 April, 2015
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      The Slow Lane: 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

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      The Slow Lane: Inspiration is losing out to perspiration

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

    • Friday, 13 March, 2015
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      The Slow Lane: A wealth of 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: The sharpest satire is not all it seems

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

    • Friday, 27 February, 2015
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      A country’s values come into focus when seen by an outsider, contrasting them with his native country

    • Friday, 13 February, 2015
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      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: Handmade dumplings and a sense of humanity

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    • Friday, 30 January, 2015
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      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 that transcended class

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

    • Friday, 21 November, 2014
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      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
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      The Slow Lane: The big questions of sport

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

    • Friday, 7 November, 2014
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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

    • Friday, 31 October, 2014
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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

    • Friday, 24 October, 2014
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      The Slow Lane: Ripeness on the tree of life

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    • Friday, 17 October, 2014
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      The Slow Lane: World leader in the art of living

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      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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