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Nicholas Barber picks his highlight from the next two months at the movies: a gleaming showcase for Felicity Jones ...   read more »

Michael Church picks his highlight from the next two months in classical music: Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall ...    read more »

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David Hockney's British landscapes at the Royal Academy may change how we think of him as a painter, says Olivia Weinberg ...    read more »

HE'S READY | June 6th 2008

Lucky Switzerland will get to host some of the continent's best and brightest footballers for this summer's big European football tournament, Euro 2008. Pity their Austrian neighbours, writes Gabriele Marcotti ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Summer 2008

This summer's big European football tournament, Euro 2008, is split between Switzerland and Austria--but not evenly. The neutrals in Switzerland (are there any other kind?) will see some of the continent's best and brightest footballers, while their Austrian neighbours have to make do with what some have rather rudely dubbed the Anschluss group--Austria, Germany, Poland and Croatia--plus the odd brilliant young Spaniard (Fernando Torres, Cesc Fabregas) and the gifted, lanky, volatile Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic (pictured). Contrast this with what UEFA's ping-pong balls arranged for the two Swiss-based groups. They get the world champions (Italy), the world runners-up (France), the always entertaining Dutch, Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portuguese team-mates, plus dangerous outsiders like Romania and the Czech Republic. No prizes for guessing where the world's media will be based.  read more »

TOTAL ECLIPSE | June 3rd 2008

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Eclipse chasers are expected to collect along the Chinese Mongolian border this summer, writes Caroline Carter. The rest of us should be able to catch a glimpse of this penumbral phenomenon from our own back gardens ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Summer 2008

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