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No stone unturned: the art of communing with rocks. ✍️ Maggie Fergusson.
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At the age of 13, when some girls become passionate about ponies, Anjana Khatwa developed an infatuation with rocks. Growing up in a Hindu family in Slough, she had a moment of epiphany on holiday in...
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The BB has suggested we follow his business plan: give the guests nothing and be as rude as hell to them. ✍️ Melissa Kite.
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‘Do you want the good news or the bad news about the Germans?’ I asked, and then I offered a few more options. The builder boyfriend got out of his truck as he returned from fixing a gate. He looked...
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Is Taylor Swift’s love life too good to be true?. ✍️ Alexander Larman .
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After years of dating effete Englishmen, Taylor Swift has finally found her man. The singer is engaged to Travis Kelce, that rugged all-American specimen of manliness. Their announcement has united...
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The enduring miracle of human birth – a history. ✍️ Sarah Ditum.
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One of the most compelling artefacts described in this history of human birth is a stone carving discovered at an ancient temple site in what is now Turkey. The Gobekli Tepe totem pole, 11,500 years...
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The most curated social media platform is ruthless at stripping away the platitudes of the ‘cancer journey’. ✍️ Damian Thompson.
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For teenage girls on TikTok, the makeup routine is an almost sacred ritual. Manicured fingertips dart around at virtuosic speed, applying dabs of foundation, blush and highlighter with precise...
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Why the English fly their flag . ✍️ Druin Burch .
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The idea that the sight of our flag should worry us is not ludicrous, but the current profusion of English flags seems welcome to me.
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Keir Starmer should call another EU referendum . ✍️ Sean Thomas .
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It can’t be much fun, being Sir Keir Starmer right now. If the people across the country chanting ‘Keir Starmer’s a wanker’ isn’t evidence enough, consider the polls. The Labour party is not merely...
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On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Christian Calgie and James Heale discuss the story over Angela Rayner's tax affairs, and whether it could hurt her image. Why is the Deputy Prime Minister so popular – including with the right? Tap to listen 👇 .@christiancalgie @JAHeale.
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Fortnum’s sells a Great Britain that never was, designed for people who no longer exist. ✍️ Tanya Gold.
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I like a picnic weighted with history and class terror, which means Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which is historical re-enactment with dreaming. I have written about this for years or tried to:...
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Why a peacekeeping buffer zone in Ukraine won’t work . ✍️ Eliot Wilson .
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Russia continues to adhere to its maximalist pre-war goals of annexing large parts of Ukraine and reducing it to a kind of vassal.
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How we turned universities into immigration machines . ✍️ Alp Mehmet .
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Meanwhile, close to one-third of asylum claims now come from those who originally came her on a student visas.
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Being a jockey is a tough ride. ✍️ Robin Oakley.
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It has been quite some year for jockey-churning, the latest example being the mid-season decision by owner-breeder Imad Al Sagar to drop Hollie Doyle as his retained rider. ‘A change of strategy,’...
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Wine Club: Wonderful whites from FromVineyardsDirect. ✍️ Jonathan Ray.
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Mrs Ray is worried. Although she’s finally accepted that I drink too much when I’m out and about or at home with company, she’s fretting that I drink too much tout seul. Some misguided saps regard...
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‘Farage has identified the best terrain on which to fight Reform’s campaigns: not in parliament but in the online space instead.’. ✍️ James Heale.
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Party conference begins next week when Reform UK kick off their two-day jamboree in Birmingham. Spirits within Nigel Farage’s party are high after a successful summer in which they dominated the...
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Portrait of the week: Reform’s migration crackdown, South Korea’s school phone ban and Meghan Markle misses Magic Radio. ✍️ The Spectator.
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Home Nigel Farage, launching Reform’s policies on illegal migrants, said: ‘The only way we’ll stop the boats is by detaining and deporting absolutely anyone who comes via that route.’ A Taliban...
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FBI Director Kash Patel has said his agency is investigating the shooting as ‘an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics.’ . Others argue that it is a mistake to confuse nihilism with politics or anti-religious ideology. Westman’s social media scrawlings
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Hungary faces a choice: scale back its hostility towards Ukraine or risk losing access to Russian oil. ✍️ Svitlana Morenets.
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Relations between Ukraine and Hungary have soured once again after Robert Brovdi, the Ukrainian drone commander of Hungarian descent, struck the Druzhba pipeline several times this month
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On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Dr Anna Loutfi and James Heale unpack today's court ruling on migrants at the Bell Hotel. The government won - but was it really a victory? Tap to listen 👇
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Human rights barrister Dr Anna Loutfi and deputy political editor James Heale join Michael Simmons to unpack the latest court ruling over the migrants housed at the Bell Hotel. The government has won...
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I love a crumble. It’s the combination of bubbling, syrupy, soft fruit giving up their juices, flavours becoming more complex, more perfumed – honey-ed, floral, earthy – under the application of heat, topped with sweet, salty, oaty, crunchy crumble. ✍️ Olivia Potts.
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The system of migrants being housed in hotels can continue nationwide. ✍️ James Heale.
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Asylum seekers will be allowed to stay at the Bell Hotel in Epping after the Court of Appeal lifted a temporary injunction preventing them being housed there. The High Court ruled last week that 138...
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