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The push for recreational cannabis legalisation in Australia has recently received energetic support from Dr Di Natale and his band…

Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…

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The Irish referendum on abortion takes place in just under three weeks’ time, and while the polls suggest a hefty…

In May 1968, civil unrest, bordering on revolution, exploded on to the streets of Paris. Student protesters and striking workers…

Just over a year ago, my best friend dropped dead. He was in his early sixties and many of us…

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The local elections have thrown up a paradox. In theory, Britain has never had more devolution: we have assemblies in…

After reading Christopher Isherwood’s Lions and Shadows, Somerset Maugham remarked: ‘That young man holds the future of the English novel…

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This ‘Windrush’ story comes from a friend called Michael McKay, a British broadcaster based in Geneva. His father, Jeff, a…

Another new word, this time from the deranged far-right: incel. This means a chap who is involuntarily celibate because women…

As I get older, and particularly after having a child, I feel myself unexpectedly drawn back to the countryside I…

Next time there’s a terrorist atrocity in Britain, here’s one of the things that will happen in the immediate aftermath:…

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Rao Pingru is 94, and a born storyteller. His gripping graphic narrative weaves in and out of the violent, disruptive…

When John Julius Norwich was a boy, his father was British ambassador in Paris.School holidays were spent in the exceptionally…

The historiography of the Great War is stupendous, the effects of the conflict being so far-reaching that even today historians…

The château at Versailles remained the grandest palace in the whole of Europe from the moment that Louis XIV established…

The target audience for David Peace’s new novel appears almost defiantly niche. Certainly, any readers in the embarrassing position of…

E.W. Swanton’s first published article appeared in All Sports Weekly in July 1926, soon after his 19th birthday. Thence, swiftly,…

This is a novel about trees, written in the shape of a tree (eight introductory background chapters, called ‘Roots’; a…

One September day the 16-year-old Tessie Reynolds got on her bike. In a homemade suit, she pedalled from London to…

Misery memoirs are in vogue. There is much misery in this harrowing account of married life with John Bellany (1942–2013)…

I’ve interviewed a lot of rappers over the years and always feel a little grimy when I find myself nudging…

Mark Galeotti’s study of Russian organised crime, the product of three decades of academic research and consultancy work, is more…

My husband started reading Diana Evans’s third novel, Ordinary People, the day after I’d finished it. Three days later, I…

Francisco Cantú’s mother is surprised when he announces he’s joining the Border Patrol and going to work in the Arizona…

You will by now doubtless be familiar with the University of Toronto academic Jordan Peterson. He’s the unlikely YouTube star…

This is an important, authoritative work of art criticism that recognises schools of painters, yet displays the superior distinctions of…

Descartes is most generally known these days for being the guy who was sure he existed because he was thinking.…

When Donald Trump was elected President in 2016, irascible US comedian Lewis Black declared angrily that, thanks to that event,…

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The most subscribed to channel on YouTube — by far — belongs to a rather strange young Swede named Felix…

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It’s not every day that a television screenwriter is threatened with a trial for sedition, but G.F. Newman was after…

Andrew Haigh makes inaction films. Weekend (2011) tells of two young homosexuals getting to know each other in Nottingham. In…

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Ella Hickson’s last play at the Almeida was a sketch show about oil. Her new effort uses the same episodic…

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‘Slight prick,’ she said. The nurses all say that before they slide the needle in the upstanding vein in the…

Because my mother is always telling me everything will be all right if I join a tennis club, I’ve joined…

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Playing rubber bridge the other afternoon for higher stakes than usual (£20 per hundred), I had a memorably miserable time.…

The Grenke Chess Classic, played in Karlsruhe and Baden Baden, has been won by Fabiano Caruana, who also won the…

White to play. This is a possible variation from Meier-Carlsen, Grenke 2018. Meier could have forced a win in this…

In Competition No. 3046 you were invited to supply a poem beginning with the last line of any well-known poem…

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