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Sandy Devereux

Smallscreen scriptwriter

Columns

D.J. Taylor

The Tory beauty contest

The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing

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Robert Hutton

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Don’t idolise Roger Scruton

Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations

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Sebastian Milbank

Blogosphere bubble

Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak

Eating In

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Good, mostly clean, fun

The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

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Robert Thicknesse

Look on our works, ye voters, and despair

Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party

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Robert Hutton

Silk Road splendour

The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels

Columns

Christopher Pincher

You reap what you sow

Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused

Sketch

Robert Hutton

The Sturgeon delusion

How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it

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Nina Welsch

The childishness of republicanism

Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King

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Tim Smith

The attractions of extremes

Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?

On Radio

Ben Sixsmith

Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama

Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow

On Theatre

Anne McElvoy

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