Apr 28 2021

Entertainment

Shrek at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence

by Kerry Rooney

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While Pixar’s groundbreaking Toy Story often achieves plaudits for the shot in the arm it gave Hollywood animation in the mid-1990s, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of DreamWorks’ 2001...

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Apr 13 2021

Features

Five words that don’t mean what you think they do

by Kerry Rooney

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Articles of this kind usually assert that a word’s correct meaning lies in its earliest uses, while later developments are corruptions. Disinterested doesn’t mean “not interested” but “impartial” they complain....

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Mar 31 2021

Features

Japan’s cherry blossom – a poetic reminder of the impermanence of things

by Kerry Rooney

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Each spring, cherry blossoms grace Japan with colour for a brief and beautiful moment. Such is the fleeting nature of this eagerly anticipated yearly phenomenon that most Japanese news channels...

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Mar 23 2021

Travel

Five tourist trips in England inspired by classic novels

by Kerry Rooney

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Some books can really bring to life the place in which they’re set. Their words knit together in such a way that whole landscapes or entire floorplans of buildings you’ve...

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Mar 18 2021

Travel

New Zealand: There and Back Again

by Kerry Rooney

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Our ever-green travelling companion Margaret Patten takes us on a journey across the beautiful and beguiling country of New Zealand. I was coming up to that special birthday, when you...

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Feb 15 2021

Coronavirus

To make COVID vaccines more effective: older people should take vitamin and mineral supplements

by Kerry Rooney

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If we’re going to rely on COVID-19 vaccines to bring an end to the pandemic, we need to maximise their effects. But one thing that risks undermining their protectiveness is...

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Feb 10 2021

Travel

A visit to New York and Niagara Falls

by Kerry Rooney

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Our globe-trotting correspondent Margaret Patten recalls a seasonal visit to New York. It was snowing lightly as the plane landed. We were visiting New York for a long weekend shopping...

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Jan 25 2021

Entertainment

Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart

by Kerry Rooney

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A hundred years ago, Agatha Christie introduced British readers to a small man with an impeccably maintained moustache who, with the help of his “little grey cells”, was very good...

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