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Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…

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The PM was filmed introducing his new cabinet by getting them to answer in unison how many hospitals, how many…

No defence Sir: Jon Stone (Letters, 15 February) recalls the horrors and miseries of being subjected to bombing from the…

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One of the Tories’ tactical successes has been to push Brexit down the news agenda. But even if it no…

Words we are not allowed to use any more now include ‘cultural Marxism’. Suella Braverman, now the Attorney General, used…

Last weekend’s papers claimed that the government desires a ‘massively pruned back’ BBC. Former Conservative cabinet minister Damian Green and…

Most Britons assume at the outset that any misfortune involving a cyclist is the cyclist’s fault. After all, many a…

After a dull interlude, the big banks in their annual results season look a bit more interesting again. First to…

As an inmate, Chris Atkins discovered just how violent and chaotic prison life is. His diaries highlight a national scandal – and the dangerous incompetence of the Ministry of Justice, says Will Heaven

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Lizzie, the narrator of Jenny Offill’s impressive third novel Weather, is ‘enmeshed’ with her brother, according to her psychologist-cum-meditation teacher.…

Everything about Kraftwerk was odd. They had no front man, they seemed to play no instruments and their strange, electronic…

Emily Thomas is a distinguished academic philosopher who has ‘spent a lot of time by herself getting lost around the…

The context for The Hungry and the Fat, Timur Vermes’s new satirical novel, is not as far-fetched as all that.…

Between 1923 and 1931 the publisher Routledge produced ‘Today and Tomorrow’, a series of 110 short books by intellectual luminaries…

The scope of Petina Gappah’s impressive novel is laid out in the prologue: the death of the Victorian explorer David…

Every history of London — and there have been very many — has looked at the importance for the city…

For those of us with nagging doubts about the value of literary biography, books that show the biographer at work…

Dear Life arrives at a time when the public appetite for the personal accounts of medical insiders shows no sign…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel transports us to antebellum Virginia, when the tobacco wealth of years gone by is dwindling, due…

Sydney’s Archibald has the name and the fame, but there is a new kid on the block: the Darling Portrait…

Mark Mason talks to Clive Anderson about mistaken identity, Macbeth and making a career out of being a bit of a smartarse

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Steve McQueen’s ‘Static’ (2009) impresses through its sheer directness — and it’s very far from static. A succession of helicopter-tracking…

An office worker stands on the ledge of an open window about to leap. Two colleagues enter, ignoring him completely.…

Ever since the end of Gomorrah season four (Sky Atlantic) I have been bereft. I eked it out for as…

Grade: D– For my first review of popular music releases in 2020 I thought I’d deposit this large vat of…

Greed is Michael Winterbottom’s satire on the obscenely rich and, in particular, a billionaire, asset-stripping retail tycoon whose resemblance to…

Gstaad I was not aware that there is a group of Spectatorfans who meet in French-speaking Switzerland. They contacted me…

Seven round the table for dinner. Wild mushroom risotto. I was told to sit next to Michael. Good. Michael makes…

Mr Benn has been in touch because he wants a right of reply to an article I wrote about my…

Few jumpers have a better record at Ascot than the Paul Nicholls-trained Cyrname. He triumphed in the Betfair Chase at…

I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the Rimstedts and their children get together over supper. One…

Three consecutive losses in a tournament is dryly termed ‘castling queenside’, in reference to the chess notation for that move…

Black to play, Kateryna Lagno–Ju Wenjun, February 2020. Material is approximately balanced, but White’s king is in serious danger. What…

In Competition No. 3136 you were invited to submit a lonely hearts ad guaranteed to send those looking for love…

41, 1A, 10 (seven words in total) is a description of a phenomenon. Remaining unclued lights, including one of two…

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It was on my ‘bucket list’, but that doesn’t mean it was a sensible thing to do. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro…

In the recent debate over Britain’s 5G infrastructure, one dog didn’t bark in the night. At no point did anyone…

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Peaty water ought to be classed as a luxury. You have spent a day on the hill, a’chasing the deer.…

Facebook recently told readers of the Sun that satellites could ‘bring broadband connectivity to rural regions where internet connectivity is…