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This week’s cover: The Age of Danger by @MacaesBruno Inside: • @NicolaSturgeon on Salman Rushdie • @DavidGauke on Liz Truss • @AndrewMarr9 on Goya
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The party describes it as the “biggest reform of our railways for a generation” while avoiding the word “nationalise” – and building on Tory policy. 🖊️ @JonnElledge
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A new variant of avian influenza emerged: one that can infect many different species and could be highly pathogenic in humans. 🖊️ Tim Flannery & James Kempton
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The novelist on the threat to free speech, facing his attacker, and why writing Knife gave him back “the power”. 🗣️ @EricaWgnr ’s interview with Salman Rushdie
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The end of the Bute House Agreement is a triumph for those who never adjusted to the SNP. 🖊️ @shirkerism
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“Kyle Walker is so tough, fierce, committed, a bit clumsy, but so strong and still so fast. He would always outrun me. If I were a defender, playing against Erling Haaland, oh my God, that would be a nightmare. He is not human.” 🖊️ Hunter Davies
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“I had assumed a massive bruiser of a man, with muscles the size of yams all down his arms, a nose folded sideways and ears reduced to stumps.” 🖊️ @NickLezard
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The lip-tingling foraged food is an ancient reminder of our right to live off the land. 🖊️ @PenVogler
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The only question is when, not if, the hapless First Minister is forced from office. 🖊️ @chrisdeerin
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“It’s not going to help Labour or the Conservatives to pretend that the UK is a high-tax state that should be seeking cuts.” 📫 @willydunn
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The 20th-century writer made the search for immortality his life's work. 🖊️ @JaredMPollen
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In this playful depiction of a toxic ménage-à-trois between players, the sport is a stand-in for sex. 🍿 @heavier_things reviews Challengers
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The latest data from the OECD suggests high-tax Britain is a myth. 📫 Today’s Morning Call with @willydunn
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“For globally successful artists, there are now few reasons not to release everything they work on.” 🎸 @sarahmanavis
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“Thirty years after his death, Canetti’s work is still being read and some of it––now including The Book Against Death––is still being published. That’s a start.” 🖊️ @JaredMPollen
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“Yousaf has had control over policy and delivery and the general reputation of the government,” one senior SNP parliamentarian told me. 🖊️ @chrisdeerin
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“On top of all the spending challenges that already exist there are the growing liabilities of our ageing society and the climate crisis, and government borrowing is already very high.” 📫 Today’s Morning Call with @willydunn
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