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Scott Morrison is completely out of touch with his own country

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Dominic Raab on prisons, patriotism and standing in for Boris

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Labour’s conference was all about in-fighting

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With COP26 weeks away, the city is in the middle of a waste crisis

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Parish problems Sir: Emma Thompson draws attention to a serious problem in the Church of England (‘Power to the parish’,…

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There’s a great revival under way in the British TV and film industry, but it’s not the BBC that’s behind…

I am just back from my final salmon fishing trip of the year. I have never had a worse season…

A worthwhile policy proposal amid the Labour conference dogfight? Now there’s a surprise. But shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s scheme to…

One day quite soon someone at a petrol pump is going to get a tyre iron wrapped around their head.…

Late last week the Labour deputy leader was the subject of a glowing profile in the Times. The piece described…

On the one occasion when I spent any time with Angela Rayner, she was funny, direct and friendly. We were…

I’m not sure very many of our politicians, the London Mayor or even the Met can really be said to…

Nothing captures medieval life more vividly than a manuscript that has passed through many hands, says Jonathan Sumption

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These aren’t diaries in the sense that Chips Channon kept diaries, or Samuel Pepys. They aren’t diaries at all, beyond…

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle sequence is one of this century’s great projects: an intimate epic in which the overriding…

Readers of Case Study unfamiliar with its author’s previous work might believe they have stumbled on a great psychotherapy scandal.…

When E. Nesbit published Wet Magic in 1913 (a charming novel in which the children encounter a mermaid), she took…

Have you heard of champing? Neither had I. Turns out it’s camping in a field beside a deserted church. When…

It’s weird to hear news of artistic life in the midst of Covid. The Sydney Theatre Company has a new…

A global pandemic is no match for the Marvel multiverse, says Rosie Millard

These days, James Bond can no longer just be the main character in the Bond films. He’s also had to…

In Oliver Mears’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, the curtain rises on a work of art. The stage is in…

An editor once told me: always look at the loos. It was remarkable, she said, how many grand cultural projets,…

Nick Cave has always been drawn to parable and fable, but more than ever these days he is engaged in…

The single most boring and pointless thing that is ever said about rock and pop — and it always comes…

Given my affection for M*A*S*H, I can’t think why I haven’t listened to Alan Alda’s podcasts before now, besides the…

I sometimes think the classical record industry would collapse if it weren’t for the Goldberg Variations. Every month brings more…

Boy meets girl. Girl gets pregnant. Then the entire world collapses. That’s the story of Camp Siegfried, which is set…

A crisis by design It is increasingly sad, so many New Zealanders saying they would leave – if they could…

A tech company claims that anti-vax and anti-lockdown rallies have been ‘astroturfed’. Which means? Well, ‘AstroTurf’ was the world’s first…

British Gas finally agreed to service my boiler, for no reason I could make out other than the boiler wasn’t…

Do any of you remember the time when everything took place on the terraces and in outdoor cafés? Before everyone…

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My best fun, through ten years reporting European politics for CNN, was bumping around the Continent with sparky young producers…

I sat on the plane to the Isle of Man, leafing through a copy of Nigel Short’s new book, Winning.…

In Competition No. 3218, you were invited to supply a recipe as it might have been written by the author…

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To lessen the side effects of chemotherapy I am prescribed a corticosteroid. I take a whopping dose around the treatment…

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When my husband’s whisky glass fell off the little table next to his chair on to next door’s cat, which…