l In 2002 Kanye West was
in a car crash that left him
with broken legs and a
shattered jaw, but the
accident inspired his
breakthrough. His debut
single, Through the Wire,
references the wires that
held his face together. His
rapping is still slowed down
by the injuries. Music, p6l The feminist fight to be
taken seriously begins with
trousers. When Elizabeth
Anscombe began giving
philosophy lectures at
Oxford in 1948, she had to
be bribed with sherry by
the clerk of schools to put
on a skirt. Even then she
kept the trousers on
underneath. Books, p26CONTENTS 13.02.2022
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His partying days may be over
but Liam Gallagher is far from
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Music
Who is the real Kanye West?
A new documentary finds out
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The heads of Bafta reveal
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10
Television
Louis Theroux on the
American dream
12
Film
Curse of the pharaoh — is
Death on the Nile any good?
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Quentin Letts for Animal Farm
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Max Hastings has never read
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than this new history22
Society
How Britain became hooked
on gambling, and what we
can do to rein in the industry24
History
The fall of the extravagantly
wealthy Sassoon family, ‘the
Rothschilds of the East’28
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A razor-edge mountaineering
mystery heads up Joan Smith’s
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