Culture | Fifty years of hurt

England’s dry spell is nothing unusual, and unlikely to end soon

The Three Lions are far from the only international football team to have suffered a barren patch

By J.T.

A still from 'All We Imagine as Light' (2024) directed by Payal Kapadia and starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, and Chhaya Kadam.

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Hare looking through a window

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Rusty barbed wire around an old book

A forgotten CIA programme that changed minds

Thanks to the agency 10m books made it into the eastern bloc


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