Ian Hislop’s Diary: Carolling with the Monkees, sherry with the vicar, and the true meaning of Christmas
’Tis the season for gift giving and – just like vaccinations – I am recommending everyone gets three Private Eye…
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Iain Dale’s Diary: Matt Hancock’s elusive memoirs, scrubbing up on the US presidents, and electric car anxiety
Given the history between Britain and the US in the 18th and 19th centuries, it is almost remarkable we have…
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Rowan Williams’s Diary: Judging the Booker Prize, the ethics of climate change, and the birth of our first grandchild
I look forward to telling my grandson his birth was toasted within a few hours alongside the 2021 Booker winner.
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A trip to the Caucasus mountains, what the pandemic revealed about power, and Putin’s fear
I can’t help but wonder how the Russian president, otherwise so enamoured with risk, can be so terrified of the…
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John Simpson’s Diary: crossing the Khyber Pass, why the Taliban is a problem for Imran Khan, and my biblical comeback
The Taliban’s leaders want to show the group has modernised – but it will be the same as it ever…
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How I was expelled from Russia
Russia is entering a dark new period in which it no longer pretends to be a democracy.
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