OLIVER HOLT: So much of life is about division. The London Marathon is a glorious antidote to all that


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Daily Mail— The London Marathon is an antidote to modern life's division and antipathy. Support given by spectators to strangers running is incredibly uplifting. You’d need a heart of stone not to well up at some of the scenes of devotion

The Scottish Sun—Iceland supermarket boss thanks medics for saving his life after collapsing during London Marathon. SUPERMARKET boss Richard Walker has thanked medics for saving his life after he collapsed running the London Marathon. The executive director of the Iceland chain was less than two miles from the ­

Daily Mail—So much for The Choke. Resurgent Arsenal humiliated Chelsea in 5-0 rout, writes OLIVER HOLT, while Blues look half a team without Cole Palmer. ARSENAL 5-0 CHELSEA - OLIVER HOLT AT THE EMIRATES: Arsenal are not choking. They are resurgent. They have dealt with the blip and now they are playing like kings again.

www.counterpunch.org—Life and Life Only. A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More