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Cambridge Literary Festival has announced its Winter Festival Online 2021 line-up featuring CLF patron Dame Gillian Beer, ex-MP Alan Johnson and Joan Bakewell.

Nov 13, 2020 5:00 AM PT The Linux desktop distros of today are the most accessible to complete newcomers as they have ever been. There was a time not long ago when only truly intrepid computer thrill seekers would dare install Linux. Now, not only can one get Linux installed on most desktop or laptop computer hardware in 15 minutes, but one can hand it off to anyone with the loosest grasp on how to use computers and expect them to be just fine. All of that said, once in a blue moon, one will ex...

Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 06.31 EST Joan Bakewell writes in her memoir, The Centre of the Bed, about the moment she became an adult. It was 1949 and she was 17, a hard- working grammar schoolgirl from the industrial north, when her frustrated, depressive mother found a photograph of Joan kissing a boy and set fire to it in front of her eyes. Joan felt deep shame, but the shame began to transmogrify. “Suddenly I was savagely and tremblingly angry,” she writes. “I was being...