Plus: When Stephen Fry met Jordan Peterson, the three days that let the Indian variant loose, and the real Mitfords
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England takes perhaps the greatest single step in the journey towards freedom and normality today with the return of tourist travel and indoor socialising, albeit with plenty of limits. It’s an exciting, maybe even overwhelming, moment. To help you make sense of it, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to the lockdown lift-off, covering everything from foreign holidays and staycations to where to eat, what to see, how to get fit, restarting dating and dressing up again. If you have a question, I’m sure our guide will provide the answer.
While this stage of unlocking is going ahead, the next one is at risk from the Indian variant. As has so often been the case in the pandemic, the seeds of the current crisis were sown weeks ago. Patrick Sawer and Lizzie Roberts tell the inside story of three crucial days of inaction, during which travel to India wasn’t banned, that led to our current predicament.
As intellectual pin-ups, Jordan Peterson and Stephen Fry might not, at first glance, seem to inhabit quite the same ideological space. But an extended conversation between the two shows that, despite their differences, they share a lot in common, especially when it comes to “cancel culture”. You can read the whole discussion here.
The BBC’s new production of The Pursuit of Love has revived interest in Nancy Mitford’s novels, yet the real intrigue lies with the Mitford family itself. Our reporters have put together this fascinating piece about the real people behind her fictional characters, including their troubling Nazi associations.
Chris
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| | | | | The Mitfords in pictures: parties, politics and the real Pursuit of Love. Meet the stranger-than-fiction family behind the BBC drama. (Free to read) |
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