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‘Nuclear’ families, Tory failures and net zero – Jordan Peterson & Michael Gove in conversation

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The worst hangover in the world

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I awoke in the early afternoon of 31 December 1995 face down on the carpeted floor of a mansion house flat in Notting Hill with the worst hangover I have ever had.  It is customary when writing about hangovers to quote the best description of the condition – by Kingsley Amis: ‘A dusty thudding in his head made

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Ameer Kotecha

The curious history of the Christmas cracker

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Javier Milei • Cate Blanchett • Ayaan Hirsi Ali • Rick Rubin • Tom Holland ... and more

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Carols are much weirder than we think

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Why, my sharp-minded colleague Tom Utley once asked after a Telegraph Christmas Carol service, should anyone think God would abhor the Virgin’s womb? He was talking about the line in ‘O come, all ye faithful’ that goes: ‘Lo, he abhors not the Virgin’s womb.’ Wasn’t it a bit weird? At last I found the answer

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John Sturgis

Were Boney M the weirdest pop act of all time?

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