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Boris Johnson on Covid failures, the Nanny State, and his advice for ‘Snoozefest’ Starmer

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An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

Who cares about Gregg Wallace?

From Spectator Life

In 1986 the late Martin Amis published a book of essays called The Moronic Inferno – a title he had borrowed from the writers Saul Bellow and Wyndham Lewis. The essays focused on Amis’s dim view of culture in the USA. These aspects of American life have long since crossed the pond, and we are

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Sean Thomas

Are you ready for agentic AI?

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World War Twee

The hideous triviality of our times

Gareth Roberts

World war twee: the hideous triviality of our times

I remember the moment I first understood that we, the British, had a national character. It was in the mid-1970s and my family and I were watching a clip from an American TV show which was being shown to us by ITV for a giggle. It was a celebration of the love between mothers and

World war twee: the hideous triviality of our times

I remember the moment I first understood that we, the British, had a national character. It was in the mid-1970s and my family and I were watching a clip from an American TV show which was being shown to us by ITV for a giggle. It was a celebration of the love between mothers and

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

Lovingly designed, touching and immersive: Neva reviewed

From the magazine

Grade: A- There’s a very faint echo of Jeff VanderMeer’s unheimlich Southern Reach Series in the new indie side-scroller Neva. You’re plonked at the start of the game into a pleasant dreamlike landscape of pastel foliage, benign fauna and the gentle twitter of birds. But as you progress you start to encounter something darker –

Podcasts

Cartoons

Nick Newman

‘‘A few inappropriate remarks and it was back to waiting tables.’’

Cartoon

Matt Percival

‘‘I’m continually surprised by what goes viral.’’

Cartoon

Ruth Bloomfield

Goodbye, Earl’s Court

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