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SubscribeWill the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?
At the end of a dismal year, consider the cult dystopias of the optimistic 1990s.
If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts
It’s not fair that Remain lost or that Trump won, once. These things are unconscionable and therefore diabolical
The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons
The DfE has banned new admissions to Ampleforth following a child abuse scandal. But this former pupil remains thankful to the school’s Benedictine monks
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
Living without a TV had several notable side-effects: we’d read more, and sometimes, even have conversations