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Want to help Greece? Go there on holiday
Showing solidarity through tourism is a win-win situation: you get a cheap holiday in a beautiful country; Greece gets a much-needed injection of cash

Alex Andreou

07, Jul, 2015 @5:03 PM

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What a relief to have Dolce and Gabbana tell me I can now let go of my silly gay politics
I have been given permission to embrace the homophobe within by the fashion designers and Tory London mayoral hopeful Ivan Massow. Hurrah for progress

Alex Andreou

18, Mar, 2015 @9:07 AM

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Defensive architecture: keeping poverty unseen and deflecting our guilt
The spikes installed outside Selfridges in Manchester are the latest front in the spread of ‘defensive architecture’. Is such open hostility towards the destitute making all our lives uglier?

Alex Andreou

18, Feb, 2015 @6:30 PM

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What starring in The Infidel taught me about faith and culture | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Yes, we probably tiptoe around Islam more than other religions. But in our po-faced world Muslim and non-Muslim are hungry for irreverence

Alex Andreou

23, Jan, 2015 @12:41 PM

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I only subscribe to this: no more pointless e-petitions | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Goodbye and good riddance: The next time I’m asked to sign something from Change.org or 38 Degrees, I’m going to do something that may actually have an impact

Alex Andreou

30, Dec, 2014 @12:03 PM

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The Christmas I realised a world was out there for me to discover | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: A Christmas that changed me: The wonders of Italy and France brought my family closer – and began in my seven-year-old self a thirst for exploration

Alex Andreou

22, Dec, 2014 @9:40 AM

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Is Islington right to target ‘buy-to-leave’ investors? | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: The UK’s housing situation is drastic enough to warrant unusually aggressive steps, but Islington council’s proposals remain problematic

Alex Andreou

08, Dec, 2014 @11:10 AM

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Caring for my mother in the grip of her Alzheimer’s is an ordinary act of love | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: The things that seemed impossible, like changing her diaper, are made rewarding by disengaging my self-obsessed brain

Alex Andreou

28, Nov, 2014 @5:07 PM

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IDS is proof the Tories value political expedience over ministerial competence | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: This government is universally discredited. From welfare reform to deficit reduction and even badger culls, it has failed to deliver

Alex Andreou

26, Nov, 2014 @3:05 PM

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Let it go? Not likely – there’s nothing wrong with holding a grudge | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Jennifer Aniston might be preaching forgiveness, but keeping a healthy distance from people who have caused hurt seems perfectly reasonable

Alex Andreou

17, Nov, 2014 @9:00 AM

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Random acts of kindness can make the world a better place | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Rather than shooing away the homeless we should offer them a cup of tea. That is what’s wrong with Britain – not the presence of Polish plumbers

Alex Andreou

28, Oct, 2014 @1:10 PM

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Where have all the working-class actors gone? | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Funding cuts, a bourgeois industry, and a glut of middle- and upper-class parts might explain why it’s harder than ever for the non-wealthy to make a career in the theatre

Alex Andreou

20, Oct, 2014 @4:30 PM

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