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• Don’t fear the reaper, it’s a waste of time | Brief letters

  04-11-2018 19:32
  OS merchandise | Death advice | Sitwell siblings | Lewes bonfire | Banknote designYour entertaining article (Met merch: the thin blue bottom line, 1 November) says “the UK could profit from its cartographic design icons by producing Ordnance Survey artwork”. Have you not looked at the OS shop site? They’re already using their imagination. We bought a couple of picnic blankets a year ago: one with a map of the Lake District, one of the New Forest. They were very well received by
  
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• M&S still feeling the heat as winter approaches

  04-11-2018 10:00
  As it prepares to update the markets, the struggling high street chain needs to show that its costly restructuring is workingHave the flames creeping around Marks & Spencer abated or are they close to consuming the stalwart of the high street?During the summer, the chain’s chairman, Archie Norman, said the business was “on a burning platform” and that its future depended on whether it was able to change and develop. Continue reading...
  
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• Bob Dylan’s deluxe ‘bootlegs’? They’re just corporate spin | Kenan Malik

  04-11-2018 10:00
  Unofficial recordings have lost any mystique. Just look at the multi-CD take on Blood on the TracksThere was a time when I was excited about bootleg albums. They were forbidden gems, something you heard whispers about at parties and sourced on some stall in Camden Market or that hard to find record shop in Palmer’s Green.Yes, bootlegging was theft and artists lost out on royalties. The sound quality was often awful. But they were also slabs of vinyl that somehow linked you to the band, and
  
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• US midterm elections, results from Japan’s big carmakers

  04-11-2018 05:59
  The FT's Daniel Garrahan previews some of the big stories in the week ahead
  
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