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'Royal racists' claims & China's green takeover

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I’ve finally given up on physical books

From Spectator Life

When I first heard about ebooks, I was horrified. Something deep within me flinched. Surely, I thought – my surface brain trying to rationalise this atavistic spasm – the tactile reality of books is an intrinsic part of the joy of books? Nowadays I only read a physical book if there really is no alternative

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Melanie McDonagh

So long to the landline

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Magazine

This week's magazine

Carbon capture

How China cornered the green market

Cindy Yu

How China cornered the green market

When Rishi Sunak announced that the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars would be delayed by five years, he framed it as a common-sense move. What he didn’t say is that he had been advised that, had the original deadline stuck, Britain’s electric vehicle (EV) market would have been handed over to China.

How China cornered the green market

When Rishi Sunak announced that the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars would be delayed by five years, he framed it as a common-sense move. What he didn’t say is that he had been advised that, had the original deadline stuck, Britain’s electric vehicle (EV) market would have been handed over to China.

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

A choice of this year’s gift books

From the magazine

Obviously, the best and funniest gift book out this Christmas is my own Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery (Abacus, £16.99), about the horrors and delights of being 60, but I am far too humble and modest to mention it, so I won’t. Very nearly as good is Bob Cryer’s Barry Cryer: Same

Podcasts

Cartoons

Nick Newman

‘‘This sort of thing happens when you’re over 60’’

Cartoon

A J Singleton

‘‘It’s even gone down badly with the floating voters...’’

Cartoon

Bruce Anderson

The Swiss appetite for wine gives them a good name

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