Jeremy Irons
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The world of cruise ship entertainment was traditionally the domain of the middle-ranking theatrical
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Exile and exaltation
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Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Gregory Halting
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