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Britain would never host the Met Gala

From Spectator Life

So, the Met Gala has rolled around again, with the predictability of death, taxes and the knowledge that some of the world’s most tedious celebrities will be photographed wearing some frankly bizarre outfits. As with the Oscars, the gala is a display of how deeply unfair it is to be a woman at these events. Men turn

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Net Zero: bin it or back it?

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Shameless Britain

We have become a nation of criminals

Shameless Britain: we are a nation of shoplifters

It’s been more than a week since Sean Egan, a manager at Morrisons in Aldridge, announced that he’d been sacked just for doing his job – for stopping a thief nicking booze – and national outrage over the whole affair is still running high. Sean is on morning TV as I write, donations to pay

Shameless Britain: we are a nation of shoplifters

It’s been more than a week since Sean Egan, a manager at Morrisons in Aldridge, announced that he’d been sacked just for doing his job – for stopping a thief nicking booze – and national outrage over the whole affair is still running high. Sean is on morning TV as I write, donations to pay

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

Were Britain’s postwar dons just having too much fun?

From the magazine

A history of academic life stands and falls by the number and quality of its anecdotes. On this count, Colin Kidd’s Twilight of the Dons unquestionably delivers. Did you know that the biologist Francis Crick wrote to Winston Churchill suggesting that an educational institution named after the statesman would be better off with a college

Podcasts

Cartoons

Nick Newman

‘‘Any advice on how to deal with a nutter?’’

Cartoon

Wilbur

‘‘The shooter’s a total whack job’’

Cartoon

Matt Percival

‘‘She’s extended the ceasefire but the blockade continues.’’

Cartoon

Tanya Gold

London’s dystopian ‘cocoon’ hotels

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