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Who will be the next Tory leader?

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Back a mudlark at Haydock

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After a week of rain, the official ground conditions for tomorrow’s cards at Newmarket and Haydock both have ‘heavy’ in the description, with a little more of the wet stuff forecast too. If I have learnt only one thing from my decades as a punter, it is to bet with caution when the ground turns

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Zoe Strimpel

Spain makes for an awful holiday

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Cage fight

Who’s on top?

Katy Balls

Who’s on top in the Tory leadership contest?

In recent years, the Conservative party conference has become something of an irrelevance. Often it is little more than a networking event, filled with dull speeches, all carefully stage-managed by No. 10. But next week’s gathering in Birmingham will be one of those rare Tory conferences that decide the party’s future. The leadership race has gone

Who’s on top in the Tory leadership contest?

In recent years, the Conservative party conference has become something of an irrelevance. Often it is little more than a networking event, filled with dull speeches, all carefully stage-managed by No. 10. But next week’s gathering in Birmingham will be one of those rare Tory conferences that decide the party’s future. The leadership race has gone

Culture

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Baffling and plainly nuts – but worth it: Megalopolis reviewed

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Megalopolis, which draws parallels between the fall of the Roman empire and modern-day America, is a film by Francis Ford Coppola – and it couldn’t, in fact, be more by Francis Ford Coppola if it tried. He wrote, produced, directed and self-financed it ($120 million; ouch) and even found the time to be its greatest

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Grizelda

‘‘Hurry up with that Assisted Dying Bill.’’

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Wilbur

‘‘Personally, I’d never accept a gift of clothing’’

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Wilbur

‘‘This looks awfully cosy – might we join you?’’

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Caroline Gold

Confessions of a procrastinator

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