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hatever outcome you wanted from the general election, I do at least feel that the country at large has finally decided where to stake its future and, hopefully, we can begin to leave a fractious decade behind us and put long-neglected issues to the fore. Columnist Michael Hayman has some words of wisdom to this effect on page 128. My education taught me that, while humans are part of the natural world and must adhere to its rules and respect their place within it, it is our culture that elevates us above it – our music, our art, our writing. These are the gifts for which we should strive and which set us apart from our simian cousins. This is why an extraordinary performance will ensure a sell-out play, or why people queue all night to have their shiny new book signed by a beloved author; or why tickets for Glastonbury sell
LISTEN within nanoseconds. So, as well For some millennial as asking Ed Vaizey to scan 2020’s insight, listen to cultural horizon and pick his Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino on BBC must-sees (p41), we also meet Sounds three sisters with artistic blood running through their veins. But in a stark reminder of the harshness of nature, it is with huge sadness that Nell Gifford, one of the sisters and founder of one of the UK’s best-loved and most EAT extraordinary entertainments, Giffords Reclaim the post Circus, died just a week before we went Christmas waist to press. Our photographer, Alexandra with a week of Pure Package Dao, captured them all food delivery beautifully together and beautifully alive. Charlotte Metcalf tells their staggering story (p60). Max Irons also has a very creative pedigree. As the son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack, it was little wonder that he’d forge his own artistic path. He chats to Benji Wilson about his latest role, his SHOP WITH HEART love of motorbikes and Buy essentials for his desire to give his own refugees at Choose family the bucolic upbringing he enjoyed (p50). Love in Covent Garden Finally, if you want to forget all that culture and immerse yourself in nature at its most sublime, Daisy @countryandtown Finer finds the African /countryandtownhousemagazine /countryandtownhouse haunts to head to (p84).
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