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• Want to see where Britain’s political future will be decided? Head to Milton Keynes | John Harris

  29-05-2022 14:00
  
  People in ‘MK’ are rarely staunch leftists, but nor are they fans of Brexit fanaticism. This is a growing, overlooked electorate Amid the celebrations of the Queen’s 70 years in the top royal job, the sporadic ritual whereby towns are upgraded to cities has once again reached a conclusion. As ever, the winners and losers of the jubilee civic honours competition do not necessarily make much sense. Reading, for example, lost out to Douglas on the Isle of Man. Particularly in the
  
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• The Royal College of Art’s new Battersea campus – forceful and distinctive

  29-05-2022 12:00
  
  Herzog & de Meuron’s ruggedly handsome new building, home to everything from ceramics to robotics, aims to connect with the wider locality while preserving the college’s creative spiritI am sitting among fellow journalists, listening to the vice-chancellor of the Royal College of Art, Paul Thompson, talk of a £135m new building, the largest ever undertaken in its 185-year history. It will, he says, put the RCA “firmly in the vanguard of creativity at an international
  
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• Your guide to the best summer culture

  29-05-2022 10:00
  
  Adele comes home, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis goes for broke, the Edinburgh fringe fires on all cylinders, and HBO and Amazon have a fantasy face-off… our critics pick the best of the new season’s artsQ&As with some of the stars of the new season’s highlightsThe return of the big American stars…
  Whether postponed by Covid or just ready to see Europe again, US pop big-hitters are striding our way this summer. Billie Eilish, fresh off a deliriously received North Ameri
  
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