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A soupçon of schadenfreude

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Charlie Kirk and Martin Luther King

The Muslim Brotherhood’s useful idiots of the left

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Valentine Low describes the financial deals struck by the Windsors with successive politicians in exchange for relinquishing political power

Lea Ypi’s moving account of her family’s experiences in 20th-century Albania addresses this and other questions involving freedom and the human spirit

Elizabeth Drayson celebrates a long and fruitful exchange of views about the arts, sciences, literature and mathematics

David Hendon recalls a time when the relative merits of Jimmy White, Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor were discussed in pubs and football wasn’t mentioned at all

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Malcolm Gaskill vividly recreates his uncle’s experience as an escaped PoW, and the courage of the peasant families who risked their lives to shelter him

Juliet Nicolson reminds us of how difficult it was, even in the 1960s, for women to admit to sexual frustration, abuse, extramarital affairs or alcoholism

Richard Holmes describes how the poet’s early fascination with science – astronomy and geology in particular – would have a lasting influence on his writing

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Dead of Winter is an action thriller starring Emma Thompson and you have to hand it to her. Has such…

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Let’s hear it for the odd couples of popular music: Bowie and Bing. Shaggy and Sting. Metallica and Lou Reed.…

What a coincidence. Two plays running in London have the same storyline: an obsessed lover bursts into a family gathering…

As we know, when terrestrial television has a big new hit these days, its response – once it’s got over…

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Harvey writes from West Australia about the Native Title Act and asks for the meaning of this word ‘native’. Well,…

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