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Sturgeon's career ends: is the Scottish independence dream dead?

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Good riddance to literary fiction

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In case you hadn’t noticed, the London Book Fair has been gracing our nation’s capital this week, down in Earl’s Court. There, the publishers, agents and buyers of the literary globe (London is second only to Frankfurt in ‘book fair importance’) have been feverishly buying and selling the rights to hot new titles, hot new

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Arabella Byrne

The democratisation of cocaine

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Massacre of the innocents

The return of sectarian persecution

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A luminous new recording of The Dream of Gerontius

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Grade: A– There’s a species of music-lover who enjoys pointing out that Elgar isn’t played much on the Continent – the musical equivalent of those social media bores who pop up each April to reveal that Saint George was Turkish, ackshully. It’s all rot, of course. Some of the best Elgar performances of recent years

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Nick Newman

‘‘I wouldn’t want to be Tesla’s head of sales’’

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Royston

‘‘They’ve reached a new Lowe.’’

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Michael Gove

The lessons I learned as education secretary

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