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What does your email signature say about you?
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Spectator Life

This week on Spectator Life, Daniel Seifert examines the strange phenomenon of modern email signatures, now replete with ADHD diagnoses and star signs. Elsewhere, twice-divorced William Cash objects to HBO drama War’s depiction of high-stakes family law and Catriona Olding endures the different pain of a Turkish bath. Tanya Gold ponders on the soul the Mercedes G-Wagon and Angus Colwell reviews the honest food at Cloudstreet, Stoke Newington. Finally, meet Algie the Shooting Bore in this week’s Portrait Of column, a man who just can’t wait to detail his exploits on the grouse moor.

Culture
Email signatures are performative slop

Email signatures are performative slop

The lower back tattoo of the digital age

Culture
What War gets wrong about divorce

What War gets wrong about divorce

I should know

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Health
A Turkish bath isn’t worth the pain

A Turkish bath isn’t worth the pain

I was hoping for limited nuclear war or some other emergency so I could escape

Cars
How would the popemobile handle Penzance?

How would the popemobile handle Penzance?

It is two cars really, or one split into two halves, in tune with the spirit of the age

WINE & FOOD
‘I won’t bury the lede: I loved it’: Cloudstreet, reviewed

‘I won’t bury the lede: I loved it’: Cloudstreet, reviewed

Of course you couldn’t do this at home

Culture
The Shooting Bore

The Shooting Bore

‘Did I tell you, Hugo has asked me for a day on the woodcock in Wales?’
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