A couple of weeks or so ago, Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said: “We must be ready for war by 2029.” He meant with Ru...
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The chief literary critic of The Times recently described Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (the cover is shown on the home page) as a novel ...
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At the beginning of last month, I spent some 36 hours in Portugal near a village called Comporta, about 75 miles south of Lisbon. It is a coming holid...
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