On ‘Super Thursday’, the big autumn book-publishing date which this year fell on September 7, the chief offering from Penguin Viking was t...
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After two decades of enjoying the lavish banquets of Champions League football, Arsenal supporters this season are having to make do with supping grue...
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On holiday in France recently, we were obviously looking forward to the food. I mean, who doesn’t? Mostly we ate at home but there were a few tr...
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Specifically, and not for the first time as a family, we were entranced in Provence. I think the region is glorious, which I know is not a singular op...
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Tomorrow it will all be over. The calendar will signal the end of August and the turning into September will mean that the party has ended for another...
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I went to the bank recently to order some euros for a holiday on the continent. I said I’d like 300. The woman behind the counter asked if I mea...
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The first film blog I posted was about Kill Your Friends, the cinematic release based on the black-comedy John Niven novel of the same title, publishe...
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OK, so this isn’t about fashion as in clothing – athletics vests will probably be next year’s thing – but people can be fashi...
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The current issue of Sports Illustrated magazine in America has a huge feature on Donald Trump. (To be fair, you seldom get small features on Donald T...
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