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Last week the Bank of England was warned to prepare for a financial crisis triggered by the discovery of extraterrestrial…

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The invitation came from Ewan Venters, a Scot who currently steers the Paul Smith brand, and the venue was Angela…

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Donald Trump’s long-standing and ever more ardent desire to own Greenland helps explain his attitude to Putin. Putin used cod…

Kemi Badenoch’s travails with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party have taken me back to the politics of the 1980s and…

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It seems counter-intuitive to say that the House of Lords is more representative than the House of Commons. Yet in…

I have never been the greatest fan of libertarianism as a political ideology. Libertarians seem to me to be the…

This week it became clear that almost none of the adults whose job it is to teach students the truth…

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Just over three years have passed since the death of George Cardinal Pell. The publication of this tome, which Tracey…

Bucharest is transformed into a phantasmic playground in this surreal take on Romania’s horrific recent history

A self-destructive dynamism is at work in the West, argues the latest prophet of doom, Paul Kingsnorth, as we dethrone the old gods and install the new ones – of power, self and money

When it comes to icebreakers, the US pales by comparison with Russia in the growing struggle for control of polar shipping routes and mineral resources

A mega-rich oil magnate is offered a last-minute opportunity for repentance in this Christmas Carol for our times, targeting corporate greed and consumerism

A mother travels impulsively from Texas to Tokyo to spend time with her estranged son when she hears an unfamiliar catch in his voice over the phone

The Nazi tropes adopted by 1970s pop stars reflected mindless defiance rather than political extremism – but they have more worrying echoes today

Quantum physics, time travel, chaos theory and religious speculation all find a place in this ideas-rich romp about a lonely scientist studying ‘nitrogen narcosis’

In a bitter dispute in the family court, Lara Feigel is informed that her ‘wilful’ insistence on writing books is a clear indication that she is not putting her children first

The heroic deeds of the Teutonic knights were once part of Germany’s foundational myth. Now the black cross is associated with the swastika and Hitlerian schemes of expansion

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When it comes to Agatha Christie adaptations, there are normally two possible responses to the denouement. One is a deep…

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Climb the Reading Room steps to reach the British Museum’s dazzling Hawaii exhibition, and you perform an obeisance. At the…

A few days after Tom Stoppard’s death last month, Michael Baum, a distinguished surgeon, wrote a letter to the Times.…

How very odd that former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern should have led the stampede exiting this year’s now-aborted…

In a column in the Daily Telegraph Andrew Bolt used the word ‘pretendian’. I conducted a careful search, and so…

If you can remember Pink ’Un newspapers and the days when FA Cup shocks really were shocks, then God bless…

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My husband made a noise which he thinks is like a klaxon but sounds as if he is choking on…

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