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Labour has the political freedom to make unpopular decisions.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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We are closer than ever before to consigning the “the colonial disease” to history.
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Plus: my paean to female friendship and Ian McKellen on marvellous form.
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From Countdown to unlikely revolutionary – the broadcaster and social media star is a political conundrum.
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Will pressure from business and their own economic priorities force Starmer and Reeves to dilute promised employment reforms?
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The UnHerd owner has added The Spectator to his media stable.
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When free speech is treated as the highest good, it gives rise to shock-jock politics.
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Squeezed between the US and China, the bloc is in a life-threatening crisis.
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I don’t doubt that AI will one day write a “good” novel. But why would anyone want to read…
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Labour’s “Iron Chancellor” has staked her credibility on spending cuts. But will she regret it?
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The great survivor of Israeli politics is fighting for his future.
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In Empire of the Sun, published 40 years ago, the great novelist turned his childhood experiences in a Japanese…
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The celebrity interviewer on men speaking over her, her most interesting subject, and entering her ninth decade.
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The poet as a young man became the “mouthpiece of an epoch” by connecting his private world with the…
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The novelist laureate of English football succumbs to hero-worship in his reimagining of the Busby Babes’ tragic demise.
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Anthony Seldon’s all-access account fails to explain how a pound-shop Thatcher could take the highest office in the land.
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Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective…
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Tim Burton’s sequel attempts to recapture the spirit of the original. Is he just cashing in on the past?
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This antic, immaculate show cuts both ways, sending up the tediously woke and the tediously un-woke alike.
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The strengths of these plays – staged on a St George’s Cross – is that they are largely led…
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How did the unassuming producer of polite, emotive dance music become social media’s superstar DJ?
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The macronutrient has a physiological role as well as a cultural and commercial one.
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Technology is invaluable to the future of healthcare – but we must also be realistic.
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I pled with the universe, God, and any other higher powers I could think of. Finally, M— and I…
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One shouldn’t use a fork to scoop ear wax out, but I was getting frantic.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The poet on Chris Ofili and a fascination with reality TV.
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