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Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
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Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions