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“... from her scholarly work, now reissued with wonderfully scratchy pen-and-ink illustrations by Fee Greening. Fairies weren’t winged until the 17th century, when wings were added to the costumes of fairies on the stage. They weren’t drawn or painted with wings until the 18th century, when artists began to represent fairies as they were in the ...”

“... of market-based rationality; as a result, students in England are lumbered with the higher fee levels that market fundamentalists wanted but were too craven to propose openly to the electorate. This didn’t detoxify that issue, of course, though it ended up being an electoral albatross for the Liberal Democrats rather than the Conservatives.Timothy ...”

“... contribution by more than half, because the EU gives much of the country’s membership fee straight back. Subsidies to British farmers make up the biggest element of the money that’s returned, at £61 million a week. A more accurate version of the Vote Leave poster would run: ‘Let’s abolish farm subsidies, raise taxes and use all the money we ...”

“... They hoped to create a transcendental tie between patriotism and the climate project, to cover the greening of Britain with red, white and blue, to displace and distract from the far right’s anti-immigrant crusade with a different sort of crusade, one that was both nobly international and explicitly nationalist. Hence, for instance, the name of Ed ...”