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Articles by The Guardian for Leo Benedictus

Is there life after summer holidays?

2010/09/02 by Leo Benedictus and Tom Meltzer

Dealing with the stay-at-home bores

There is no one quite as insufferable as the person who has worked through August. The stay-at-home bore will, invariably, be convinced that everything was far more efficient when only they were in the office. They will explain at length how they were able to do your job with a single spreadsheet, and how, after a couple of days, they had forgotten that you worked there at all…

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Fuzzy-Felt is 60. Celebrate!

2010/08/29 by Leo Benedictus

If today were not already a national holiday, it would surely have been declared one, because it is exactly 60 years since the first box of Fuzzy-Felt went on sale. I know. Go and have a lie down…

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A working life: The probation officer

2010/08/21 by Leo Benedictus

Ask people why they do the job they do, and they will often rummage lengthily for an answer. Ask Kelly Grice, however, as I just have, and the response is clear and immediate. "I'm actually really attached to this job," she says…

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Why I turned my garage into a brewery

2010/08/18 by Leo Benedictus

There will come a time, perhaps sooner than you think, when it seems very quaint that people used to park their cars indoors. Because Britain's garages – at least the ones still being used as garages – are dying out. Today just 34% of the 9…

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