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There’s nothing quite like a First Night — and last Friday we launched the Proms, the most celebrated classical music…
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I witnessed what was almost a violent fight to the death on Hampstead Heath the other morning. Broad flawless sunlight,…
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I witnessed what was almost a violent fight to the death on Hampstead Heath the other morning. Broad flawless sunlight,…
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One strange consequence of my job as a foreign correspondent is discovering beautiful places when terrible things happen in them.…
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One strange consequence of my job as a foreign correspondent is discovering beautiful places when terrible things happen in them.…
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‘Hello. I’m lesbian threesome,’ the young lady tells Taki. ‘And I’m Mongolian rampage,’ says the young man beside her. We’re…
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‘Hello. I’m lesbian threesome,’ the young lady tells Taki. ‘And I’m Mongolian rampage,’ says the young man beside her. We’re…
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My husband says I only write books in order to have a launch party. Not so. I also write books…
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My husband says I only write books in order to have a launch party. Not so. I also write books…
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Off to prison to visit a writer friend, first jailed led some years ago for trying to find a hit…
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Off to prison to visit a writer friend, first jailed led some years ago for trying to find a hit…
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Down here in west Cornwall, the days are long and summer is on the wing. Like the Tories in Scotland,…
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Down here in west Cornwall, the days are long and summer is on the wing. Like the Tories in Scotland,…
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For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
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Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
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The aftermath of a general election is a difficult time for any party leader, unless like Mr Cameron you have…
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For the 2005 general election, I had a party featuring a gigantic cheesecake with differentiated segments by allegiance. It contained…
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I am writing a play about Dr Johnson and his Dictionary. It will be performed in Scotland later this year.…
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I have escaped this rather depressing election campaign by retreating to my home in la France profonde — to be…
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Lunch with the man who hanged Saddam. My irrepressible old Baghdad friend Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Ealing neurologist turned Iraqi national security…
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To the dentist. And for an extraction. I hadn’t had a tooth out in decades. But the twinges when I…
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So far, what an infuriating election campaign. We have the most extraordinary array of digital, paper and broadcasting media at…
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I am living in rustic seclusion while writing a book. Our only cultural outing of the week was to Newbury…
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I never knew classicists could be so scary! Last week I wrote a Telegraph article saying classics exams had been…
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It’s dangerous, in my line of work, to promise you’ll be anywhere by 8 p.m. I made this mistake recently,…
