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The first few weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine went so badly that it was tempting to see the withdrawal…

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I spent Easter agonising over whether to throw the considerable weight of this column behind Elon Musk’s maverick $43 billion…

Mid-term unpopularity is a given in British politics. Veterans from the Thatcher era like to joke that a government that…

Got slightly wrecked over the bank holiday weekend and had hoped to kind of glide through the early part of…

My friend, the novelist Alan Judd, emails with the right quotation for those who argue that Putin should be given…

Some years ago there was a study at Harvard that tried to find out what people did when they held…

I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have…

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The case of the retired major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor hanged in 1922 for killing his wife Katharine…

One day the writer and artist James Bridle rented a hatchback, taped a smartphone to the steering wheel and installed…

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Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winning recent film Belfast chronicles the travails of a Protestant family amid sectarian conflict in 1969. Louise Kennedy’s…

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The comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his stage persona as the dim-witted interviewer Ali G, once asked Noam Chomsky if…

It’s not hard to sympathise with Christopher Allen’s recent column in the Review section of the Australian decrying the juxtaposition…

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A clever, original exhibition at the Wallace Collection has Laura Freeman twirling her way through the West End

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stars Nicolas Cage playing a version of Nicolas Cage, in a parody of Nicolas…

Of the 101 Australian military personnel who have been awarded the Victoria Cross, our highest honour for bravery, most lie…

Here it is! I have finally found one word that will describe the Liberal party in its present state— ‘agathokakological’.…

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In Competition No. 3245, you were asked to take a passage from a classic of French literature and recast it…

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‘It makes me hungry,’ said my husband when I mentioned the word salmagundi. That is his reaction to many words.…

I am never bored with Harrods, only disgusted, and it is disgust of the most animated and exciting kind. It…

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