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A modest proposal / Britain should just join the United States
Bad medicine / Doctors and the trouble with the BBC
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From the magazineCarmageddon / My electric car will be the death of me
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From Spectator LifeTelevision / Have today’s TV dramatists completely given up on plausibility?
From the magazineBooks / The heart-rending story of a child’s heart transplant
From the magazineBooks / Few rulers can have rejoiced in a less appropriate sobriquet than Augustus the Strong
From the magazineCarmageddon / My electric car will be the death of me
From Spectator LifeSpy in the sky / AI drones are coming for dog owners
From Spectator LifeMail order pride / An ode to Boden
From Spectator LifeLanguage barrier / Inside the Welsh village where English speakers aren’t welcome
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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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