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ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

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For anyone who came of age in the glow of a Noughties laptop screen, Kaya Scodelario defined our teenage years. As Effy Stonem in Skins, she had main character energy long before the term existed; the

TV WEEK: 8-14 NOVEMBER

Dakota Fanning and Sarah Snook star in a new thriller that’s every parents’ nightmare…