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Le shutdown / Michel Barnier has brought France to the verge of collapse
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Electric shock / EV craze is killing our car industry
Distorted history / The unforgivable bias of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
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From the magazineWith farmers outraged, the nation’s biggest employers warning the Budget will bring increased prices and lost jobs and growth out of sight, Rachel Reeves has certainly confirmed that economics is the dismal science. It hasn’t got any easier either finding winners. For the previous two Flat seasons this column’s Twelve To Follow showed profits of
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The great betrayal of the SAS
The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights
The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban and Isis. But the enemy that really concerns them doesn’t carry a gun or wear a suicide belt. It’s the phalanx of lawyers they think are coming for them, armed with a deadly weapon: the European
The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights
The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban and Isis. But the enemy that really concerns them doesn’t carry a gun or wear a suicide belt. It’s the phalanx of lawyers they think are coming for them, armed with a deadly weapon: the European
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Lovingly designed, touching and immersive: Neva reviewed
From the magazineGrade: 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 –
Tate’s finances are on the skids and I think I know why
From the magazineSmart, taut and stunning: Conclave reviewed
From the magazineWonderful comedy of manners: Kiln Theatre’s The Purists reviewed
From the magazineKneecap are basic but thrilling
From the magazineDeeply impressive and beautiful: Akram Khan’s Gigenis reviewed
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‘‘I’ve got a certificate that says I’m a sheep.’’
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