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

The teenage Farage story misses the point

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In Terence Rattigan’s 1948 play The Browning Version (filmed in 1951 starring Michael Redgrave), a public-school classics teacher called Arthur Crocker-Harris is appalled to discover that he is known to his pupils as ‘the Himmler of the Fifth’. According to the Guardian and the BBC, the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was a fan of

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Alec Marsh

Put Christ back into Christmas cards

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Slob story

Labour is now the party of welfare, not work.

Michael Simmons

Labour is now the party of welfare, not work

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have gone into bunker mode. The pair – whose political fortunes are so tightly bound – have been forced all week to defend the Chancellor’s claims at last week’s Budget that there is a black hole in the country’s finances. Mendacity soon gave way to something closer to bewilderment. Neither

Labour is now the party of welfare, not work

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have gone into bunker mode. The pair – whose political fortunes are so tightly bound – have been forced all week to defend the Chancellor’s claims at last week’s Budget that there is a black hole in the country’s finances. Mendacity soon gave way to something closer to bewilderment. Neither

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Nick Newman

‘‘It’s undermining justice, deciding if I’m naughty or nice without a jury.’’

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Grizelda

‘‘I’m afraid you’ve become wealthy.’’

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Lino Buckingham

What happened to Westminster Bridge?

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