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'Nigel Farage is slinking off to the left' – former Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib

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An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

I was convinced by the cholesterol sceptics

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It’s never a good thing when your cardiologist sounds alarmed on the phone. Come in tomorrow, he said: we’ll get you on the table. He wasn’t talking about cracking my chest, thank Christ, but threading a wire in through a vein to get a look at the heart, blow up a tiny balloon to stretch

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Get real

The harsh lessons of our new world disorder

Michael Gove

Get real: the harsh lessons of our new world disorder

Sir Roger Scruton may not be the Prime Minister’s favourite author. Apparently Keir Starmer prefers Victoria Hislop. But as he prepares to travel to Washington next week, the PM could scarcely spend his time more wisely than burying his nose in The Uses of Pessimism – and the Dangers of False Hope, one of Scruton’s

Get real: the harsh lessons of our new world disorder

Sir Roger Scruton may not be the Prime Minister’s favourite author. Apparently Keir Starmer prefers Victoria Hislop. But as he prepares to travel to Washington next week, the PM could scarcely spend his time more wisely than burying his nose in The Uses of Pessimism – and the Dangers of False Hope, one of Scruton’s

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

Regents Opera’s Ring is a formidable achievement

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I saw the world end in a Bethnal Green leisure centre. Regents Opera’s Ring cycle, which began in 2022 in Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden, has found its culmination and completion at York Hall, a rundown public bath better known for championship boxing. Tower Hamlets security staff scan you for concealed weapons on the way

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Cartoons

Wilbur

‘‘I prefer the British approach of breaking things slowly.’’

Cartoon

Theo Hobson

What happened to children’s hobbies?

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