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Showing posts from October, 2023
The latest season of The Crown and licking the lid of a yoghurt: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon
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Sunday with Michael Morpurgo: ‘We go to the pub where I was inspired to write War Horse’
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The children’s author on lunch at the pub that changed his life, alcohol-free Guinness and games wi…
Please keep marching for Palestine – your protests are giving hope to the people of Gaza | Nowar Diab
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Amid tragedy, the demonstrations in our name make us feel that we are heard, and our cries are not …
‘An awe-inspiring journey back in time’: readers’ favourite ancient sites in Europe
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From the cave art of the Dordogne to Yorkshire’s mighty barrows, our tipsters recall visits to unsu…
Feel the glow: under the mountain into a radon spa in Austria
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Bad Gastein’s curious attractions include tunnels where visitors can soak up low doses of natural r…
Murder of the Essex Boys: Blood and Betrayal review – a real-life rogues’ gallery
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Doc raking over the 1995 ‘Range Rover murders’ of three drug dealers assembles a string of hardmen …
French made: the Paris festival celebrating centuries of unique crafts
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Couturiers, spirit-makers and neon-sign merchants are among the 600 artisans opening their ateliers…
Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky review – the hard science of decisions
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The behavioural scientist engagingly lays out the reasons why our every action is predetermined – a…
Toxic by Sarah Ditum review – a decade of misogyny, from Britney to Paris Hilton
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These nine feminist essays about female celebrities of the 00s expose the casual sexism of the era …
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair
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Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Bu…
‘A Yellowstone for Europe’: Romania’s ambition for a vast new wilderness reserve
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A project to create Europe’s largest forested national park aims to protect 100,000 hectares of wil…
England goalkeeper Mary Earps: ‘People tell me I’m worth millions. Before the World Cup, they’d have said about £10’
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Already a hero for her Euro-winning exploits, the Manchester United star cemented her title of the …
Novelist Jesmyn Ward: ‘Losing my partner almost made me stop writing’
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When the father of her children died suddenly, the US National Book award-winning author’s world fe…
Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help | Hanno Hauenstein
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The Frankfurt book fair’s cancelling of an award ceremony for Adania Shibli shows the risks of impo…
Wizz Air piled pain on to my daughter’s tragic loss
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She was forced to cancel a trip with the airline after her boyfriend was killed in a road accident,…
Ulez made me try to scrap my car, but TfL is stalling me
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I’m on my fifth scrappage application because it keeps finding fault with my documents I live in …
Light fantastic! Eye-opening shots from the Magnum square print sale – in pictures
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What’s the difference between an AI photograph and one taken by a human? The use of light – somethi…
‘Housebuilders just want the cheapest thing possible’: how futureproof are new-build homes?
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Homeowners and renters in new-build properties are frustrated by reliance on gas amid energy crisis…
Work has stopped on HS2, but the Tories are still digging Britain into a hole | William Keegan
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The loss of a national asset that would have aided ‘levelling up’ shows how little Rishi Sunak is r…
A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – B-sides and rarities
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A posthumous collection of the Booker-winner’s nonfiction shows her lesser-known works to be the eq…
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour film review – a cacophonous testament to mega-stardom
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The concert film captures 2023’s biggest pop culture event with breathless fervour and crystal clar…
TV tonight: gothic classic rises from the dead with fresh bite
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A juicy, contemporary take on Anne Rice’s eerie saga. Plus: pants-based confusion in Taskmaster. He…
Pressure on Reeves to drop Labour opposition to higher wealth taxes
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Union leaders and MPs on left of party say UK’s finances must be improved by taxing very richest …
Holding ground: a trans utopia in the US midwest – in pictures
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J Houston’s intimate images portray members of a widespread trans and queer community who have ‘a d…
‘I slept in ditches and dreamed of marauding raiders’: a wild walk on the Hadrian’s Wall path
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The vandalism at Sycamore Gap may have hogged the headlines, but walking the length of the national…
We’ve bought a house in Greece – will we pay tax if we sell our UK home?
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Owning the two properties is part of our transition into retirement Q My wife and I live in a hou…
As nights draw in, it’s time to tidy up the garden
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Halfway through autumn and we’re winding down, clearing the summer stragglers and weeding beds for …
UK users of illicit streaming services warned of risk of fraud or police visit
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Campaign launched to raise awareness about exposure to ‘sophisticated criminal networks’ People i…
As hunger bites, is Egypt ready to turn its back on its president? | Edmund Bower
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The reaction to President Sisi’s recent gaffe in telling Egyptians to go hungry while he pursues bi…
Labour eyeing ‘seismic’ byelection win in Rutherglen and Hamilton West
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Voters head to the polls in Scotland’s first-ever recall byelection after Covid rule-breaker Margar…
Watchdog berates Thames Water and Southern Water over level of complaints
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Two utilities deemed ‘standout poor performers’ with so many complaints it skews industry’s overall…
TV tonight: murder and money laundering on the mean streets of Edinburgh
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Jed Mercurio’s new six-part financial crime thriller stars Peter Mullan and Morven Christie. Plus S…
Gleam dreams: 10 of Britain’s best light trails this autumn and winter
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The nights are drawing in, but stately homes, public gardens and attractions across the UK are enco…
TV tonight: a damning look at Partygate from all sides
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A sickening state of affairs at the Downing Street parties during lockdown. Plus: it’s biscuit week…
A new start after 60: I wanted to find myself – so I kayaked 6,800 miles alone
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Mark Fuhrmann culled his possessions and set off into the deep, where he was chased by an alligator…
UK income tax: how fiscal drag leads to people falling into higher rates
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We show how people are pulled into paying more without the government increasing the tax rate Suc…
‘I thought: how hard can it be?’ Mike Skinner on making a film – and the first Streets album in a decade
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The era-defining rapper and producer spent a decade making his first feature film, The Darker the S…
The Fall review: Michael Wolff spills the goss on Murdoch, Trump and Fox
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The Fire and Fury author returns with a typically readable account of the declining years of a righ…
Autumn layers: 15 of the best AW23 coats – in pictures
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Choose a neutral shade or a classic check and you’ll wear a great coat for years to come Continue r…
We really could still rejoin the EU. But Tory Britain isn’t up to it
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The Conservatives could be out of office for two terms. Labour has the chance to govern with seriou…
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare review – the other international man of mystery
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An elegant and painstakingly researched biography of the 007 author attempts to strip away the nove…