The biggest fiscal curse facing the nation, we have repeatedly been told by the government and the Bank of England, is inflation. The country has been...
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The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize was Damon Galgut, a white South African writer whose book, The Promise (the cover is shown on the home page), is a...
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The latest inside-track sports series in the Netflix canon (in the wake of the FI-based Drive to Survive), follows professional golf on the PGA T...
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I don’t think there is anything particularly fashionable about February but for sure this item is seasonal, especially if we’ve had a spri...
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I have in the past warbled on about parliamentarians and golf. I particularly remember Liam Fox, who used to be a minster of something or other in one...
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On a neighbourhood street corner in Islington, London N1, a particularly fine Indian eaterie has come to town. Thirty years ago it was a popular pub, ...
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Season after season for the past decade and more, a football debate has raged, or at least simmered. Who is better: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?...
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It is over 35 years ago that CDs came along and we were told they were the future of leisurely listening to music. The vinyl LP was dead, or at least ...
Read MoreFar from a valediction for vinyl
Apparently the word ‘sock’ is derived from the Latin word soccus, which means ‘slipper’. But one imagines protective footwear ...
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