Chain Restaurant
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
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Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
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Beauty from the ruins of war
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This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Unholy war
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