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Westminster Fool
With politics on my mind, I remembered a recipe, ‘To make a Westminster-Fool’, that I once stumbled upon in Hannah Glasse's bestselling 18th-century book The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. A fool is, of course, a silly person or an idiot. But a
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Hidden Histories
WHEN YOU PUT AN OVERLOOKED HISTORY – especially one within living memory – into the public space, it unlocks so many other stories. You are never sure, though, exactly what those may be. Earlier this year, BBC Sounds launched my series Three Million,
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Prize Crossword
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