Decline and fall? / The 1990s were Britain’s sunset years
Labour pain / Keir Starmer’s polling calamity
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From Shy Di to international icon / How ballet lessons transformed Princess Diana
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From the magazineTheatre / Faultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed
From the magazineMail order pride / An ode to Boden
From Spectator LifeCarmageddon / My electric car will be the death of me
From Spectator LifeThe vintage chef / The joy of tarte Tatin
From the magazineFrom Shy Di to international icon / How ballet lessons transformed Princess Diana
From the magazineBooks / The contagions of the modern world
From the magazineTheatre / Faultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed
From the magazineMail order pride / An ode to Boden
From Spectator LifeCarmageddon / My electric car will be the death of me
From Spectator LifeThe vintage chef / The joy of tarte Tatin
From the magazinePutin’s cannon fodder / An anthem for Russia’s doomed youth
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An ode to Boden
From Spectator LifeThe joy of tarte Tatin
From the magazineAn inedible catastrophe: Julie’s Restaurant reviewed
From the magazineBring back the stiffy!
From the magazineMy electric car will be the death of me
From Spectator LifeAsk my friends and family and they’ll tell you: I am an electric car bore. I’m not a gushing enthusiast. I’m more the negative kind of EV dullard. I can’t stop telling people about the horror of driving these wretched things. I’m really not like this about other subjects, or indeed about life. I’m generally
AI drones are coming for dog owners
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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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