An ode to Charlie Watts, the politest man in rock music
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The Rolling Stones drummer was one-of-a-kind
Christopher Sandford
Tuesday
Sunday
Fatty Arbuckle’s fall
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Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture
Monday
The man in the White Castle
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From the pioneers of the bun to the cheek of Earl Butz
Hell in Portland
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Weeks of government-sanctioned mayhem in the Rose City
Tuesday
The fight for Greater Idaho
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Five rural counties are ready to put the ‘gone’ in Oregon
Wednesday
Fifty years of ‘Imagine’
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Perhaps the real secret to the song’s eternal popularity is that it taps into our modern obsession with feeling good about ourselves
Wednesday
The narcissism of Pramila Jayapal
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The congresswoman sees herself as boldly defying the monstrous forces of oppression aligned against her
Wednesday
Here’s looking at you, Kid
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One hundred years on from the seminal Chaplin flick
Monday
Elvis and Nixon, the odd couple
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The day the president met the King
Saturday
Gone to pot: drugs in the Pacific Northwest
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How has legalization affected the cannabis market in Washington State?
Friday
Washington State is a worrisome window into the future
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The Pacific Northwest is a laboratory for crackpot progressive policies
Friday
Richard Nixon took the high road in 1960. Donald Trump should now
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The striking similarities between the elections of 1960 and 2020
Tuesday
The talentless Mr Inslee
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He is always on his guard against any foolish attempts by the citizens of his state to live their lives unimpeded by government fiat
Sunday
Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist
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Kshama Sawant’s attitude to Amazon has come to reach the level of a personal hatred rarely seen outside marriage
Tuesday
Delivering the goods?
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The once-great USPS suffers from partisan bickering
Wednesday
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
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The city ’ s first black police chief wa s effectively hounded out of office by gangs of predominantly white protesters
Thursday
Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
Portland, Oregon The federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon, has become ground-zero for the nightly orgy of assaults, looting, arson, and public nudity — and, most recently, a surrealistic duel between protestors and federal agents using leaf-blowers to drive back each other’s tear gas — that continues to enliven America’s so-called Rose City in the
Thursday
What’s it like in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?
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At night there’s a touch of Dunkirk as you pass by rows of bedraggled-looking campers hunched together around braziers
Tuesday
When Tom met Groucho
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‘He seemed more interested in discussing Animal Crackers and A Night at the Opera’
Saturday
Sympathy for the vicar
Christopher Sandford says that Keith Richards — 60 next month — is a secret conservative: he eats shepherd’s pie, loves his mum and even goes to church He doesn’t exactly look like your average squire, Keith Richards, with his piratical swagger and a complexion that’s been compared to old cat litter. But Keith, who turns