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Tumultuous relationship
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Highly illogical
Matteo Garrone’s first English-language film is a baroque fantasy based on Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), the 17th-century collection of fairy…
Online
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Wardrobe malfunction
It is at the Coliseum that I have seen the most wonderful Tristan and Isoldes of my life, both of…
Cricket
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I dream of Genie
Gauche, perhaps, to complain about Aladdin but it slightly deserves it. The terrific Genie opens the show and then disappears…
Bernie
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Swan upping
Was Tamara Rojo, when she danced Swan Lake last Saturday at the Albert Hall, thinking as she shaped each phrase,…
Trump
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My big fat Gypsy fortune
In his latest documentary for the This World series, the Romanian film-maker Liviu Tipurita could have been forgiven for treading…
Australian letters
The Peta principle Sir: A besotted Richard Ferguson didn’t hold back on the superlatives in his pean to Peta Credlin…
Women of substance
Three women, three writers, three very different life experiences. On Monday afternoon the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay introduced us to Imtiaz…
Breadline
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High life
Marion, Baroness Lambert, was hit and killed by a London bus last month while shopping in Oxford Street, a cruel…
Stuffing
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Low life
Michel is one of those Frenchmen one encounters now and again whose shining saintliness is beyond rational understanding. This great…
Angel
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Real life
‘This EU passport is an outrage. I want a British one!’ Not my words, Cydney’s. The spaniel is coming round…
Long life
It was 41 years ago that The Spectator first urged its readers to vote Brexit in a referendum, but the…
Condemning – – – – –
Littering our beautiful countryside is both unsightly and potentially prejudicial to the environment. So we run expensive campaigns to condemn…
Conservative notes
Yet another reason to keep the Crown: as part of her 90th birthday honors list, the Queen knighted Roger Scruton.…
Bridge
Just take the money! That’s the philosophy of many rubber bridge players when it comes to bidding — or rather…
Green with envy
I’ve been dudded. This is what happens when you elect, then re-elect, a Greens MP. When your electorate goes from…
Wowsers in the West
“WA: The State of Excitement” the slogan on the number plates used to read. So risqué. But that was a…
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