I work in wine, but my lip curls involuntarily at pouting influencers
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The North American media is in a ‘purity spiral’
By Toby Young
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If you’re lucky, you stumble upon people who’d like you around for a long time
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I’m duly chastened when my brother suggests I stop sharing memes and let him get this grant written
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With few exceptions, almost every single person tried to talk us out of going
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Some prominent activists say they’ve been tracked down several times
By Hollie McKay
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Could the controversial journalist unseat Emmanuel Macron?
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What is starting today is a new age of technological wonder
By Bruno Maçães
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My brother, his cancer and the political disregard for veterans
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The new administration is dangerously addicted to sentimentality
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If you were a juror, would you dare to return a ‘not guilty’ verdict?
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Books + Arts
As he collects nearly two decades of essays and criticism, Marco Grassi recalls a life in the art world
By Marco Grassi
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For an artist to qualify as a genius, he only has to do create a single masterpiece once. Twain did it twice
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Harris ignores the prerequisites for meditation that nearly all religions consider essential
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There probably is something here for everyone. But maybe only one thing
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The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching reviewed
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White reviewed
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Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan reviewed
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale reviewed
By Susan Hill
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Life
Wearing two masks struck me as being as absurd as wearing two hats and I laughed
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Politicians as a class are almost without exception second- or third-rate people
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Four hundred years have passed since Seville was the greatest and most glamorous city on earth
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People ached to have a good time — to splurge, to let go
By Taki
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To read is to invite derision, especially if you grew up in a working-class town
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Following Mum’s death, I have been staying quietly at her home on the beach in a whirlpool of memories
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St Bartholomew the Great will celebrate its 900th birthday in 2023
By Tom Holland
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Artichoke came into English in the 16th century from words already obscure in their derivation
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Food and Drink