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When I went to Poland not long before Covid, I found a country more bitterly divided by a culture war…

The strategic bankruptcy of the West has twice so far this century demanded that our brave soldiers risk their bodies…

Long before Ernest Hemingway wasted his late career playing the he-man on battlefields and in fishing boats, or Norman Mailer…

I write this in a garret a few doors down from the public library in Muswell Hill, north London. It…

Andrew Mitchell, as he readily admits, was born into the British Establishment. Almost from birth, his path was marked out:…

One September day in 1649, in the frontier town of Springfield, Massachusetts, Anthony Dorchester returned from church to the house…

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Charlotte Hobson describes the complicated relationship of two artists who championed simplicity

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Jasper Rees talks to the Chilean director Pablo Larrain about his new film, Spencer, which makes The Crown look like royalist propaganda

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Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a gripping, horrifying drama. Nicolas Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor have sifted through the public…

There’s a great documentary film on Netflix at the moment about the late artist Bob Ross, he of the happy…

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The Forgotten Battle is a Dutch feature film commemorating the desperate and relatively little-known Allied assault on the Scheldt estuary…

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When New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet announced the re-opening of the state he said: ‘We can’t remain a hermit…

‘My phone says I can’t go out until Tuesday, so I can’t come and meet you,’ said my friend. And…

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I’m optimistic that the government won’t implement ‘Plan B’, let alone impose another lockdown — but not because sceptics like…

Whitcomb’s is in The Londoner hotel on the south-west corner of Leicester Square. The Londoner calls itself ‘the world’s first…

‘No, darling, I certainly wouldn’t call you a witch,’ said my husband. ‘You’re not thin enough.’ The Oxford English Dictionary…

The question posed by the song is 11A/ 22A/37A. Suggested by 37A, other unclued lights were anagrams of words meaning…

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Clockwise round the grid from 2 runs a quotation (5,3,3,5,6,4,3,4,3,3,4,5) followed by the poet’s first name. Her second name is…

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