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Books / Witches, dragons and the Terrible Deev: a choice of this year’s children’s books
Books / Bats have suffered too long from the ‘Dracula effect’
Music / Indian classical music's rebellion against modernity
Sticky wicket / There is still hope for the Ashes
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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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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
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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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