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From the Kremlin’s point of view, holding a US-Russia summit in Anchorage, Alaska is an idea of fiendish brilliance. The…

Why are people in the UK protesting about the situation in Gaza? Surely it should be because the helpless Gazans…

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Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘The Israeli government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza is…

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A familiar cliché, which in history has been disproved time and again, is that a police force cannot operate without…

The only MP I have ever really wanted to marry is Thangam Debbonaire. The former Labour MP for Bristol West…

Successful political leaders hold in their minds some idea of what Mrs Thatcher called ‘Our People’. In this context, I…

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Is Volodymyr Zelensky becoming a liability for the West and for his own country? We are entitled at least to…

Scotland’s former first minister spends most of her memoir telling us how different she is from her public image

Social, moral, architectural and linguistic problems collide in this gem of a novel set in lightly altered contemporary Tokyo

The medieval surgical diagram evolves over centuries into an internationally recognised image, offering a striking portrayal of human suffering, love of detail and medical knowledge

The frail-looking movie star turns out to surprisingly thick-skinned as well as shrewd: a curious combination of entrepreneurial survivor and woo-woo artiste

Swindled out of almost $100,000, Johnathan Walton warns of the insidious strategies lasting years of the really determined con artist

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Two creative writing professors in a ‘deeply rewarding’ marriage separately decide to press the self-destruct button

A comparatively new figure with no accredited expertise now dictates to literary agents, senior editors and award-winning authors

Christians should consider themselves ‘peregrini’, said Augustine, and his life on the periphery of the Roman empire taught him that we are all citizens of nowhere

While it attaches high moral value to emancipation, it acknowledges the legitimacy of slavery and the sexual exploitation of woman – justifying forced concubinage by certain Islamic regimes

I thought it would be impossible to make a bad film about a dog but the production team for The…

Our relationships with bands are often very like our relationships with people. Some are pure and lasting love. Some start…

Grade: B Everyone loves the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Rather fewer people love the sound of an unaccompanied organ,…

Celine Song’s first film, the wonderful Past Lives (2023), earned two Oscar nominations. So expectations were riding high for Materialists.…

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No one wrote programme notes quite like the English experimentalist John White. ‘This music is top-quality trash,’ proclaims his 1993…

Edinburgh seems underpopulated this year. The whisky bars are half full and the throngs of tourists who usually crowd the…

Cue track seven of Frank Sinatra’s 1957 album Only the Lonely and you can hear Ol’ Blue Eyes pretending to…

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A strange thing happened recently on a bright and peaceful Sunday morning in Bleak City, aka the once-great Melbourne. I…

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Q. I am soon to entertain a house party on a sporting estate. We took the same house last year…

Forgive me if I don’t join the general ‘Make mine a treble’ hoo-ha about the future of Test cricket after…

I spent some time looking for the connection between the ancient city of Canopus and the English canopy. Nelson won…

Eight entries – only four of which comprise one word – possess titular properties. Across 11    Playful killer whales swimming,…

For Competition 3412 you were invited to submit a poem about the struggle of writing a poem.This challenge drew a…

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‘Please do NOT wash up!’ reads the makeshift sign I have fixed above the kitchen sink. It instructs our B&B…

With DJs and MCs inviting the crowd to dance on the parade-ring steps as if they were on a beach…