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OECD goes full green/left

Labor falls off its horse

A documentary about Julia Gillard peddles fake news

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The case against Aukus

Why do some women find killers irresistible?

Germany needs to progress beyond Merkel – but will it?

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The demise of the Church’s heritage is not inevitable

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Why are cabinet ministers Liz Truss and Dominic Raab squabbling like children over access to grace-and-favour Chevening? Because they know…

As the cross-Channel ferry noses into Ouistreham, I have a perfect view westward along the D-Day beaches. The excitement of…

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Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, has begun this academic year by announcing it will be his last in the…

Two weeks have passed and somehow James Conway is still in a job. He is the director of the English…

‘One day,’ she writes, ‘we had the Minister for Northern Ireland for the night. He arrived wearing a kilt, which…

This last weekend I attended the memorial service for my father, who died in July. This isn’t a bid for…

The world Ruth Ozeki creates in The Book of Form & Emptiness resembles one of the snow globes that pop…

Anyone with a grasp of the history of Britain knows that its once considerable power, and much of its still…

Flying has always attracted chancers and characters to Africa. Wilbur Smith’s father so loved aviation he named his son to…

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If Modernism is a jungle, how do you navigate a path through its thickets? Some explorers — Peter Gay and…

Peter Pomeranzev describes the refinement of thought-control techniques over the past century – and the worldwide competition to employ them

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Blithe Spirit is a comedy with the plot of a horror story. Charles, a middle-aged novelist, lives happily with his…

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So how exactly did Tony Soprano become a New Jersey mob boss? It’s 1967 and young Anthony is struggling to…

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In its coverage of the shuffled cabinet, the BBC added a note: ‘BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) is a…

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The first serious F2F bridge tournament we have played for almost two years was the Premier League last weekend. Whatever…

Even in my shed at the bottom of the garden I can hear the screams coming from the house. Shrieks…

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Q. I never lie about my age but I try not to think — or talk — about it. Now…

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