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Meghan Markle announces a second child after last year's court action over privacy

Meghan Markle has announced that she is expecting a second child. Only last year she turned to the courts for protection of her private life from journalists. Yesterday's news, in all likelihood, illustrates not merely a wish to publish personal stories and news on her own terms, but, more broadly, an attempt to regain control over the circulation of information about herself among people who are hounded without respite. Most probably, the Duchess of Sussex's revelation is nothing other than a minimal concession to publicity, made in order to forestall an uncontrolled leak of information

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Meghan Markle announces a second child after last year's court action over privacy

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s