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An evening with Nigel Farage

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I gave up smoking one year ago this week, as part of a series of pitiful capitulations to the forces…

What was supposed to be a recovery moment for the Conservatives instead looks like a collective nervous breakdown. The Prime…

Thought for the Day appears every morning on BBC Radio 4. This preachy slot is hallowed by longevity, if not…

With Australia heading toward a referendum next year on a constitutionally enshrined indigenous ‘voice’ to parliament, the need for a…

Tom Williams describes how two women’s hopes of marrying T.S. Eliot came to nothing

Almost two years after the death of Jan Morris, the jaunty travel writer and pioneer of modern gender transition, her…

Elizabeth Strout’s fourth book about Lucy Barton comes on the heels of Oh William!, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize.…

Place and story are little remembered now. The rectory in Essex was severely damaged by fire in 1939. But any…

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Now is a difficult time to empathise with Russians – which is why we need Maxim Osipov. We need him…

How best to write a book about the Himalayas when Mount Everest has been reduced to just another tick-off on…

Absent mothers resonate in the latest offerings from two heavyweights of French literature. Getting Lost is the diary kept by…

Racism lies at the heart of the Victorian rewrite of the creation myth. What happened in prehistory, according to Thomas…

What a relief it is that Virginia Gay’s adaptation of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac should finally have opened in Sarah…

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Sam Kriss on Saudi Arabia’s $1 trillion eco-city

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The Lost King is a comedy-drama based on the 2012 discovery of the remains of King Richard III beneath a…

Clunk, clunk, clunk. John Gabriel Borkman opens with the obsessive footfalls of a disgraced banker as he prowls the attic…

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The word ‘they’ has two legitimate uses and one illegitimate use. The first proper and legitimate use is as the…

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The bridge world is experiencing an explosion of junior talent and enthusiasm. One of the very best is Sweden’s Sanna…

A cleverly worded email has arrived from British Gas to explain why, despite the Prime Minister’s announcement, my gas and…

In Competition No. 3269, you were invited to write a poem about Her late Majesty’s favourite things. Alongside the more…

Once the dust has settled over the government’s mini-Budget, another big political battle looms: the Online Safety Bill. This is…

The Guardian kindly tells us that green is a colour whose time has come: ‘A blazer or a cotton shirt…

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Labour is 30 points ahead, and in honour of this I review the Impeccable Pig in Sedgefield (Cedd’s field), a…

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