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Life of PIE / The shocking truth about the Paedophile Information Exchange
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Losing faith / How The Traitors betrayed itself
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From Spectator LifeHow The Traitors betrayed itself
From Spectator LifeJanuary can only mean one thing: The Traitors is back. For those of you who haven’t been initiated into this cloaks-and-daggers drama, the premise is simple: the traitors attempt to remove players by ‘murdering’ them, while the faithfuls try to work out who the traitors are. Each night the group votes someone off after a
Wealth and hedonism are a fatal combination
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Gang mentality
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What real justice would look like for grooming gang victims
It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans discovered the British ‘grooming gang’ scandal, British politics has suddenly had to face up to something it has spent a quarter of a century trying to ignore. One would hope that the claim that thousands
What real justice would look like for grooming gang victims
It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans discovered the British ‘grooming gang’ scandal, British politics has suddenly had to face up to something it has spent a quarter of a century trying to ignore. One would hope that the claim that thousands
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Playing Nice is beautifully done – but they miscalculated the opening scene
From the magazineThere must have been a time when slow-burn psychological thrillers didn’t start with a scene of high drama followed by a caption that reads ‘Three months earlier’ – but if so, it’s getting hard to remember it. The latest programme to deploy the tactic was Playing Nice, which began with James Norton running towards the
Exquisite: Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed
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From the magazineThe Natural History Museum’s new Evolution Garden is inspired
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‘‘Oh no! He’s received an Elon Musk endorsement.’’
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