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I wrote an extended version of my interview with Jane Birkin in which she talked about Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive legacy of Je T'Aime. https://open.substack.com/pub/alastairmckay/p/histoire-de-jane-birkin-an-english?r=695tp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Parliamo Stanley: The Comedic Importance of Banana And Marmalade Sandwiches

Clarksdale, Mississippi: Where The Blues Had A Baby And Named It Rocket 88

The Baader Meinhof Complex - Euro-Terror Meets Bonnie And Clyde

Heavy Metal, Iraq, And The Dangers Of Headbanging In A Wartorn Country

Robert Johnson, RIP: In Heaven Or In Hell, Your Spirit Lives On In The Mississippi Delta

Elvis, Memphis, and the Ghosts of Libertyland

Cass: Frodo Baggins, Margaret Thatcher And The Exploitation Of Violence, West Ham-style

Postcard from Mr Ivor Cutler

Mike Leigh Watches Gavin And Stacey, Is Reminded Of His Younger Self, And Tries To Imagine What It Would Be Like To Be Happy

One Nation Under CCTV

Sinew and Duracell: Martin Scorsese and the Frightening Endurance of the Rolling Stones

I'm An Ape Man, I'm An Ape-Ape Man: Another Disaster From Roland Emmerich

Putting Britain On The Couch: Hanif Kureishi And The Country's Midlife Crisis