WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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What’s a winter friend and red all over?
Not only the Morning Star, as RICHARD HORNSEY, ANNA GREENWOOD and HILARY INGRAM explain with a brief history of Britain’s obsession with the hot water bottle
COMPLEX REALATIONSHIP: The sculpture Big Mother, 2015, by Erwin Wurm; Woman at work on a rubber plantation, Java, 1915
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Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
LAST winter, British retailers reported record sales of water bottles as consumers look to cut their heating costs as the average household energy bills soared.
Boiling a kettle to fill a hot water bottle uses less energy than an electric blanket or turning on the heating and so is the cheapest option to keep you warm, according to consumer insights publication Which?
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