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Assad's downfall: is this the reinvention of the Arab Spring?

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How to make chocolate salami

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For as long as we’ve been serving food, we’ve been unable to resist a bit of culinary deception. Making one thing look like another thing – especially if it makes a sweet thing look savoury or vice versa – seems to have universal comedic value. There’s something Willy Wonka-ish about the visual wrong-footing, the surprise

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Julie Bindel

Stop messing with my Negroni

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

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

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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Tanith Carey

Why are Brits such bad neighbours?

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