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Like the Pilgrim Fathers before her, Greta Thunberg, the po-faced Pilgrim Daughter of the climate cult, set sail for America…

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The 20th Anniversary of the landslide victory by the rank-and-file over a juggernaut of Australia’s elites —the mainstream media, most…

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Over the years, I have spent around five months sleeping rough on the streets of London, Birmingham and New York,…

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Picture the scene: we are filming the opening link for The Great British Bake Off. Here I am in the…

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The EU is demanding that, in return for a new deal, the UK must come up with a solution to…

Harry’s army career Sir: I believe Jan Moir has misread the situation over Harry and Meghan (‘By royal disappointment’, 24 August).…

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Good stories have a dénouement. The Act III moment when all is revealed and the narrative comes in to land…

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Broken Ghost begins in the aftermath of a rave on the shores of a mountain lake above Aberystwyth, with three…

Whether we see the primary cause as being postmodernism (for decades we’ve been told that our master narratives no longer…

Peter Hennessy is a national treasure. He is driven by a romantic, almost sensual, fascination with British history, culture, and…

Georges Simenon, creator of the sombre, pipe-smoking Paris detective Jules Maigret, pursued sex, fame and money relentlessly. By the time…

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Grade: B+ I’m not sure about ‘Projects’. Aren’t those what ageing rockers produce, in a haze of sedatives, when their…

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The classical section of the elite Grand Tour event in St Louis, which ended earlier this week, resembled a peace…

Black to play. This is from Nepomniachtchi-Anand, St Louis 2019. How did Anand exploit his opponent’s lapse? Answers to me…

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