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One look at Grace when I went to get her in from the field, and I knew she had eaten…

After the death by boredom of the slow traffic jam, the agricultural-show field was an assault on the senses. The…

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Gstaad   What is it with these baldies? I turned on the television last week and watched as the identical…

There are reasons why Theresa May might harbour doubts about the Hinkley Point nuclear project — chiefly its unproven French…

Good old Sir Philip Green. Where would we be without him? So often, those national hate figures let you down.…

We know what people voted against,’ say half-clever ­pundits, ‘but it’s far from clear what they voted for.’ Actually, it’s…

May I write a review of a review? I have to get this out of my system, having been unable…

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Answers to clues in italics are Clockwise (16), mondial (25), smugly (26), mushroomed (15) and pantable (32), each of which…

In eight clues, cryptic -indications omit reference to parts of answers; these parts must be highlighted, to reveal two words.…

White to play. This position is from Olafsson-Tal, Moscow 1971. How did White finish off? Answers to me at The…

Mark Hall, curator of the Perth Museum, has recently drawn attention to the proliferation of board games in Viking burials.…

Martin Hoffman is a hero. Now in his eighties, he can still analyse a hand faster than most people can…

The unacknowledged subtitle of Channel 4’s new reality series Eden (Mondays) is Die, Hippies! Die! Obviously they’re not going to…

It’s a brave dramatist who would seek to adapt for radio the hit novels of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante.…

For almost 60 years, whatever the political weather, Russia and Britain have maintained mutually assured respect as far as ballet…

Consider it commercially. So powerful is the pull of the Potter franchise that the characters could simply re-enact the plot…

In 1965 William Eggleston took the first colour photograph that, he felt, really succeeded. The location was outside a supermarket…

In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…

The Carer is a Hungarian-British co-production about a cantankerous old thesp (Brian Cox) and the young Hungarian woman (Coco König)…

Art is aspiring; hungry; acutely aware of what it could become, and of what it could lack; longs for safety…

Hitler, ever seeking to emulate strong German hero types (especially if their Christian name was Frederick), unsurprisingly named his great…

In The Circle, Dave Eggers’s satirical dystopia about an insatiable Google-like conglomerate, there’s a scene in which drones hound a…