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From Spectator Life25 years on / No one compares to the Two Fat Ladies
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Books / Starving street urchins sell their sisters in the chaos of Naples, 1944
From the magazineBooks / Is now the most exciting point in human history?
From the magazineSlow Horses / It’s time to banish binge-watching
From Spectator Life25 years on / No one compares to the Two Fat Ladies
From Spectator LifeSpain / If it doesn’t impress you, what will?
From Spectator LifeI am the Chosen One / Dawn Butler’s bonkers black history poem
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From Spectator LifePunk may be dead, but the Sex Pistols aren’t
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From Spectator LifeWhat Robert Jenrick can learn from Oktoberfest
From Spectator Life25 years on, no one compares to the Two Fat Ladies
From Spectator LifeThey were loud, vivacious and gloriously un-PC. Sometimes they seemed to be learning how to cook as they went, barely one step ahead of the viewer. It didn’t matter. If anything, it only made the BBC’s Two Fat Ladies more watchable. And 25 years on – the last of the two dozen episodes pairing Jennifer
If Spain doesn’t impress you, what will?
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Israel’s revenge
Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating – attacks, which decapitated its Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, and killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran. But the regime may have self-immolated by firing missiles at Israel
Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating – attacks, which decapitated its Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, and killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran. But the regime may have self-immolated by firing missiles at Israel
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A stone-cold banger: Black Myth – Wukong reviewed
From the magazineGrade: A Remember the mad 1970s TV series Monkey? Here, excitingly, is the closest you’ll get to it in videogame form. In a pre-credit sequence, you are the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, and you not only fly about on a little cloud but suffer from that headache-inducing circlet on your bonce. The main game is
Melodramatic body-horror – but I don’t regret seeing it: A Different Man reviewed
From the magazineFaultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed
From the magazineHeartfelt and thought-provoking: Eugene Onegin, at the Royal Opera, reviewed
From the magazineHave today’s TV dramatists completely given up on plausibility?
From the magazineWhat has become of the Wellcome Collection?
From the magazineThe world is on fire – yet navel-gazing still reigns in pop
From the magazineCartoons
‘‘I hope this doesn’t degenerate into a Tory leadership contest.’’
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‘‘I’m having it fun checked.’’
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‘‘Heh, good luck with that!’’
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