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1000 albums to hear before you dieMusicArtists beginning with FFaces A Nod Is As Good As a Wink ... to a Blind Horse (1971) The phrase "good time rock'n'roll band" could have been devised specifically for Faces. Boozy, deceptively ragged-sounding and of dubious moral character, Faces blurred the boundaries between business and pleasure, and recorded the consequences. The two Ronnies, Lane and Wood, are on form here - though it's Rod Stewart's Stay With Me that remains the high point.

Book of the dayAutobiography and memoirReviewAn account of a teenage affair with a teacher feels like therapy and lacks deep thinking Teenagers are so vulnerable. Like ripe peaches, they’re too easily bruised. But Alisson Wood was more defenceless than most. At 17, she had already undergone ECT in an effort to treat her depression; beneath her clothes, her arms bore the marks of self-harm. If her American high school was a place to be endured – the other girls, in their locker-room sententiousness, had decided she was a “psycho” – home was hardly a refuge.

OpinionSchools This article is more than 3 years oldBritain's obsession with school uniform reinforces social divisionsThis article is more than 3 years oldRhiannon Lucy CosslettOther countries don’t feel the need to strip children of their individuality It’s September, and with it comes that back-to-school feeling that even as an adult you can never quite shake. I associate it with the delicious plasticky smell that emanates from the insides of pencil cases; cool, crisper mornings that hit you as you rush from the house trailing toast crumbs, and of course, new uniform – if your parents can afford it.

RankedSuccessionKendall ​crashing, ​Logan slapping, ​Shiv cheating, Roman ​perving, Greg Gregging ​and Tom eating chicken … we rate every episode of Succession and relive its most shocking moments 39. The Disruption (season 3 episode 3) Even a show as good as this has to have a worst episode. Luckily, picking one wasn’t a particularly tough decision. The Disruption was a largely pointless episode of ping pong between Kendall and the rest of the Roys, notable for how uncharacteristically heavy-handed it was.

ExperienceGlasgow airport trialInterviewExperience: ‘I stopped a terrorist attack’Stephen ClarksonHe was doing these commando moves, but I grew up in Glasgow… I knew a wee forearm smash would sort it out It’s 10 years since I found myself in the middle of the Glasgow Airport terror attack. It was 30 June 2007. I was at the airport, picking up my brother, sister-in-law and niece from holiday. As I walked through the terminal, I noticed people being ushered out the way I’d come in.

Despite an unprecedented crisis in home ownership, shows like Location, Location, Location and Grand Designs are seemingly neverending. Might they be to blame for skyrocketing prices? Published: 13 Jul 2022 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKymYq6vsIyrmJ2hn2S4qr7SraCeZZGhubS7z6k%3D

The ObserverFictionReviewA skilful debut novel paints a nuanced picture of Belfast and a grieving young woman’s search for something to believe in The journalist Rachel Connolly’s incisive debut novel conveys the quiet desperation of a generation facing economic instability and career uncertainty, compounded by the climate crisis. Erin returns home to Belfast after the death of her best friend, Kate. She suspends her degree and accepts a position as an au pair to avoid staying with her mother.

Newspapers & magazinesObituaryPenny Valentine'The first woman to write about pop music as though it really mattered'When the Beatles travelled to London to promote their early records, one of their ports of call was the office of Disc And Music Echo on Fleet Street. In the words of Andrew Loog Oldham, then acting as their press officer, they went to "ogle and fawn over" Penny Valentine, who had become Britain's most influential reviewer of new pop singles.

BIRDS AND THE BEESWhat happens to a cow if you don't milk it? IF MILK is not removed pressure builds up which eventually stops the secretion so that no more milk is produced. If the cow is producing very little (less than 5 kg/day) when milking stops there are no problems; this is the normal way of 'drying off'. If the cow has recently calved and is producing a lot of milk then the pressure would be exceedingly uncomfortable and infection could occur.