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Is it any good?’ a friend asked when he saw I was reading this book. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘but it’s full of wankers.’ By that stage ...

Though you wouldn’t know from the smiles around the table at the White House this week, a trap has been set by Vladimir Putin ...

Reading Careless People, an exposé of life within Facebook written by a Kiwi, it occurred to me that one potential advantage ...

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I don’t quite see the point of flying Union flags in Tower Hamlets, or complaining about it when the council takes them down.

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I once spent a delightful weekend in Madrid with the co-producer of Alien. His name was David Giler (now dead, sadly, I’ve ...