
Linda Grant’s Diary: The best Brexit movie, washing machine nightmares and the question they ask all novelists
The weather over the Easter weekend was very fine and warm and we had a family barbecue. The old…
ByThe weather over the Easter weekend was very fine and warm and we had a family barbecue. The old…
ByIn May 2009, the Daily Telegraph received a leak that would change British politics and enrage the electorate. The…
ByDo you remember GamerGate? I wish I didn’t. In 2014, an online and offline harassment campaign was waged against…
ByHow do we know that Britain hasn’t left the European Union yet? For most people, the answer is “because…
ByJust recently I was contacted by a journalist from the French sports daily newspaper L’Équipe, who was writing an…
ByFour decades in general practice, reassuring parents at baby clinics that NHS advice to vaccinate their children was a…
ByIt used to be easy covering election campaigns. As soon as the battle began, the stopwatch came out and…
BySnouts are whispering crumbs from the joyless Tory-Labour Brexit talks, with Philip Hammond accused of looking down his nose…
ByIn January 2019, supermarket Morrisons announced it was rationing one of its products to two per customer. The £2.50…
ByClimate change is becoming increasingly hard to ignore. Last month, as the activist movement Extinction Rebellion staged 11 days…
ByThe actor-turned-director Brady Corbet has pulled off quite the double coup for his film Vox Lux, securing not only…
ByThe Paris catacombs are no secret; quite the opposite, these days. The first time I headed down through the…
ByI decided to stop therapy because I was perfect. And how might your perfection appear to others? Classic my…
ByAs Tsar Alexander II’s iron-clad carriage came around the corner of a snowy St Petersburg street, the first bomber hurled…
ByWhen I think back to my time as a punk, the seven stages of grief – shock, denial, anger, bargaining,…
ByThe Times columnist Hugo Rifkind’s new three-part satirical series, about who in modern Britain has power (3 May, 11:30am…
ByTuca & Bertie opens with an ending. After six years, loud, sporadically employed, “short-short-wearing connoisseur of snacks” Tuca (an…
ByYou can see why the BBC has subtitled its much-trailed new series about forensic scientists “The Real CSI”, and…
ByThe actor-turned-director Brady Corbet has pulled off quite the double coup for his film Vox Lux, securing not only…
ByEarlier this year, a long-term study of satellite-tagged hen harriers revealed that, from a sample of 58 in total,…
ByHelle Thorning-Schmidt was born in Rødovre, Denmark in 1966. She served as the first female prime minister of Denmark…
ByClinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are statutory bodies established under Andrew Lansley’s 2012 Health and Social Care Act. There are…
ByDuff, the bass player from Guns N’ Roses, was a pastry chef once. He made blueberry muffins, then he…
ByIn a week’s time I will be homeless; but let me go out with style. And so I am:…
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