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Just offer women elective caesarians
Given all the near-apocalyptic news stories we’ve been treated to over the last six months, you can be forgiven if you didn’t notice the recent Ockenden…
Aug 15
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Rowan Davies
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9
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Paddington (1976 - 1980)
Please look after this bear
Aug 8
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The Editors
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Tobias Sturt
18
4
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Metropolitan Mixtape: July 2026
Aux charmes, citoyens
Aug 1
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The Editors
10
1
July 2026
Up in smoke
Post-graduation misery in the early ‘90s
Jul 25
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Rowan Davies
13
1
2
Blank space
Boyhood, the Cazalets and Twentieth Century Women
Jul 18
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Rowan Davies
11
2
1
1996: Irresistible Bliss
Deep Slacker Jazz
Jul 11
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The Editors
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Tobias Sturt
8
1
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Taxi Driver (1976)
I’m the only one here
Jul 4
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The Editors
and
Tobias Sturt
11
10
2
June 2026
Metropolitan Mixtape: June 2026
What The Metropolitan has been watching while delirious from the heat
Jun 27
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The Editors
8
3
2
The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley (Titan Books, 1986)
Jun 20
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The Editors
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Tobias Sturt
14
8
3
I hate being on TV
The early 2000s weren’t all sparkles and rainbows (the clothes were awful, for one thing); but there was a sense that — to adapt the New Labour anthem …
Jun 13
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Rowan Davies
17
6
4
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Can anyone else smell frying onions?
Jun 6
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Tobias Sturt
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The Editors
14
5
3
May 2026
Metropolitan Mixtape: May 2026
Heroes, super and otherwise
May 30
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The Editors
9
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