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I think it’s for the best if we ban all children’s books containing the word ‘dream’. Dream big, little dreamer,…

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It was not a war to end all wars, writes James Howard-Johnston at the start of this illuminating and thought-provoking…

It seemed like a preposterous proposition. For decades, Iain Sinclair has been an assiduous psychogeographer of London, an eldritch cartographer…

In the winter of 1992, the retired octogenarian Deng Xiaoping toured China’s southern coasts. From there he gave a spirited…

It must have been shortly after my first performance of Not I in London in 2005 when Matthew Evans, the…

In a letter to Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, who had married Thomas Mann’s daughter Erika sight unseen in order to…

We open with Theo, our narrator, and Robin, his son, looking at the night sky through a telescope. ‘Darkness this…

Anyone who spends time among trees senses how good that is for their physical and mental wellbeing, says Ursula Buchan

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The Sopranos – the greatest television show in history – far outshines its progenitors, says Tanya Gold

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How do we have difficult conversations? Especially in an age of polarisation, where everything is immediately politicised? But also where…

Frozen the musical declares war on woke politics. The 2013 Disney movie has been turned into a song-and-dance show that…

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When Extinction Rebellion vandalised Parliament House they were engaging in ‘stuntism’— a word that was coined by Mark Latham. When…

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In Competition No. 3216, you were invited to retell a well-known biblical story in a secular style that would enhance…

I suspect many players perceive the chess board in rich contrast, like a heat map. Glowing bright red are those…

Clockwise round the grid from 20 runs a quotation minus one word (1,2,4,4,4,1,4,1,5,4,4,9) followed by an honest servant’s name. Unclued…

I was rolling out some pastry that had been cooling its pudgy heels in the fridge when voices on the…

With a French health card everything is free for us cancer patients, even taxis to and from the hospital. ‘This…

The residents of Mayfair are misnamed: they do not really live here. They live in Mayfair like I live on…

Not many people would have seen that coming. I’m talking of course of last Saturday evening and the women’s final…

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‘Table presence’ is a funny old expression in bridge. You might think it means what it would in any other…

For the founders of the West London Free School, of which I was one, last Thursday should have been a…

The two-acre smallholding lived up to its name in being very, very small indeed. We had to squeeze around the…