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An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.
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My House of Lords dinner disaster
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A right royal travesty: Lilibet’s reviewed
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Bring back the album
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Bets for Sandown tomorrow and the Welsh Grand National
From Spectator LifeSam Thomas was a talented jockey – riding Denman to victory in the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup – but he is an even better trainer. His winning strike rate with his runners is phenomenal, and this doesn’t simply come from picking off low-quality races. Thomas is never happier than plundering decent prize money at the
Bring on the sexy builders
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Labour is now the party of welfare, not work.
Labour is now the party of welfare, not work
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have gone into bunker mode. The pair – whose political fortunes are so tightly bound – have been forced all week to defend the Chancellor’s claims at last week’s Budget that there is a black hole in the country’s finances. Mendacity soon gave way to something closer to bewilderment. Neither
Labour is now the party of welfare, not work
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have gone into bunker mode. The pair – whose political fortunes are so tightly bound – have been forced all week to defend the Chancellor’s claims at last week’s Budget that there is a black hole in the country’s finances. Mendacity soon gave way to something closer to bewilderment. Neither
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Bring back the album
From the magazineUsually when my tweenage sons ask about relics from my 1990s adolescence – ‘What’s a landline?’ ‘What’s a phone book?’ – we’ll have a good laugh about these obsolete artefacts of the not-so-distant past. But last year when my ten-year-old asked about ‘Immigrant Song’, which he’d heard on the soundtrack to a Marvel movie, and
The young Anton Chekhov searches for his voice
From the magazineNostalgia for the 1980s New Romantic scene
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Revenge of the invisible woman: Other People’s Fun, by Harriet Lane, reviewed
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The last straw in Lloyd George’s cash for honours scandal
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Homage to the herring as king of the fishes
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