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The banality of Emma Watson

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For a long time it was handy dinner party fact that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One (2010) briefly filmed at my late grandparents’ house, and appeared as Hermione Granger’s house in the film. Even this required extensive exposure of my grandparents to Warner Brothers’ lawyers, the film crew and, of course, to

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Sean Thomas

I finally ate Sardinia’s maggot cheese

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Who does Shabana Mahmood have in her sights?

Tim Shipman

Who does Shabana Mahmood have in her sights?

After a fortnight in which Keir Starmer lost both Angela Rayner and Peter Mandelson but also reshaped his cabinet and his Downing Street team, one of the Prime Minister’s senior aides remarked to a friend: ‘Would I swap the last two weeks? Probably not, because the cabinet we’ve got and the No. 10 we’ve got

Who does Shabana Mahmood have in her sights?

After a fortnight in which Keir Starmer lost both Angela Rayner and Peter Mandelson but also reshaped his cabinet and his Downing Street team, one of the Prime Minister’s senior aides remarked to a friend: ‘Would I swap the last two weeks? Probably not, because the cabinet we’ve got and the No. 10 we’ve got

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Nick Newman

‘‘How’s this for a crazy, headline-grabbing stunt?’’

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Wilbur

‘‘When Trump gives you a headache, I’d still take paracetamol.’’

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Tim Bales

‘‘It’s an invoice from my parents and they’re charging more than the nursery.’’

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Rupert Hawksley

The curious cult of solitude

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