After a six-year hiatus, Arsenal returned to play in the UEFA Champions League last Wednesday evening, with a home game at the Emirates Stadium agains...
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I was reminded by a piece in The Guardian the other week that September has historically been a sometimes savage month for high finance. For example, ...
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A couple of weeks ago I went to France for a few days, flying out of London City Airport on an early-morning British Airways flight to Nice. (There...
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When news emerged last week that Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the passengers on an aircraft that had ‘mysteriously’ crashed in Russia, late...
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A film about a doll leaving a make-believe ‘paradise’ to visit ‘real world’ is bound to demand a large suspension of disbelief...
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At the beginning of this month, my wife and I went on a week-long holiday to Rhodes. You might say we picked the right time, because now would certain...
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The 151st Open Championship concluded at Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Sunday afternoon in the atrocious wet weather (the tricky par-three 17th sh...
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Now we are heading into the heart and heat of summer, we can confidently expect longer and more frequent delays to any flight plans we may have. The e...
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A few years ago there was a joke circulating on social media that imagined a world 200 years from now in which the British prime minister went to Brus...
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