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Surely the final series
Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant
He tweets, he scores!
Allegra thinks it’s all over
A Priti pass
The Home Secretary ought to be up to the job
I’m not going to panic because I don’t do that anymore
I feel like you’re being sabotaged by your inner saboteur
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
Is Boris immune to Tory MPs?
The Kent Covid is moving the goalposts
Optimism ain’t what it used to be
Hopeless is as hopeless does
It’ll all be ended by Christmas
Don’t say ‘Protect the NHS’ three times in front of a mirror
You’ll grow tired of the Brexiting
Maybe Theresa won after all?
Presser is not short for presents
Imagine an Advent calendar with nothing behind the numbers, forever
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
