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• Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Rowan Moore

  20-04-2024 17:00
  
  It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere – where it should remainThe second least surprising piece of recent news – the first being that yet more Tory MPs are reportedly embroiled in bizarre sexual and financial scandals – is that the Line, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 105-mile-long (170km) vanity project in Saudi Arabia, is being scaled back. In an act of what is known in the construction industry as value e
  
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• On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

  20-04-2024 16:00
  
  The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie setCiara Mary-Alice Thompson, who performs as CMAT, was born in Dublin in 1996 and grew up in nearby Dunboyne. She formed a band at 18 but quit after three years and later reinvented herself as a solo artist blending country music with pop and other influences. Her 2022 debut, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, won the RTÉ Choice music prize for Irish album of the year. The
  
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