Rory Stewart on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek
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Rory Stewart OBE is MP for Penrith and The Border and Minister of State at the Department for International Development (DFID). After a period in the army, he joined the Foreign Office, serving in Indonesia and the Balkans and becoming deputy-governor of two provinces in Southern Iraq. His father Brian was a keen walker who […]
India’s World Records
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Samanth Subramanian looks at the fevered subculture of record setters for the New York Times
Warnings from History
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Srinath Perur on what we can learn from the collapse of ancient capitals for the Guardian
The Spirit of Place
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The Independent call Philip Marsden’s Rising Ground ‘superb’