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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Limestone villages and babbling brooks offer an escape from the modern world

From Soho to Purfleet, Britain is a prisoner of the 1990s

But building a new community is harder than it looks

The literary agent died on January 18th, aged 97

The character of England’s footballers reflects the state of the nation, writes Andy Miller, our special correspondent