It would be easy to dismiss A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles film made in 1964, as a throwaway period piece. The plot hurls ...

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As the first Americans of the season got out of their car I scrunched up my face and groaned. ‘They’re all like that, ...

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Everyone I have met who has read Belchamber, Howard Sturgis’s novel of 1904, would endorse Edith Wharton’s judgment that ...

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It will come as no surprise that Keir Starmer appears to have heard a very different evidence session from Sir Olly Robbins ...