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Spare me the residential ‘reimagining’. A planter or two is hardly Haussmann’s Paris

Spare me the residential ‘reimagining’. A planter or two is hardly Haussmann’s Paris
18.01.2025 5

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Rachel Cooke

Why Severance is the series for our times

16.01.2025 4

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2. Playing Nice is good, clean, twisted fun

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07.01.2025 10

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In life, David Lodge was surprisingly mirthless. Luckily, his wife was a hoot

When I was a teenager, David Lodge, who died last week at the age of 89, meant more to me than any other writer. It wasn’t only that his novels...

04.01.2025 10

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5. Douglas Is Cancelled: finally, a funny cancel culture comedy

29.12.2024 20

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The comforts and joys of Gavin & Stacey

25.12.2024 3

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5. The Jetty: Yet another laughable, insulting show about crimes against women

16.12.2024 4

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Retro restaurant was note-perfect

Last Monday, I had lunch at the Yellow Bittern, the much-written about restaurant near King’s Cross in London where bookings may only be secured...

07.12.2024 5

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The torture of Meet the Rees-Moggs

28.11.2024 10

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5. Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a masterclass in restraint

12.11.2024 3

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4. The Day of the Jackal is more lifestyle show than thriller

11.11.2024 3

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Brahms for the soul on the night the US election results came in

On Wednesday evening, I went to the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank Centre to hear the Icelandic pianist, Víkingur Ólafsson, play...

09.11.2024 6

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4. Undercover: Exposing the Far Right reveals a vile network of pathetic fascists

24.10.2024 3

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4. The Franchise is a sharp send-up of superhero films

22.10.2024 3

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The unadulterated pleasures of Rivals

16.10.2024 4

New Statesman

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Exuberant bums abound on the new Rivals. What a relief

Having seen a preview of the new TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 1988 novel Rivalson 18 October on Disney ), all I can tell you is that it came as...

12.10.2024 2

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4. Joan is a diamond in the rough

07.10.2024 4

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Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book

Nervous as I am of organising parties, I could hardly have launched a book about friendship without throwing one. And so it was that last Tuesday...

14.09.2024 3

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Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?

Ah, A-level results week, and how weirdly enjoyable it is when you’re not doing them yourself, have no children of your own in the game, and...

17.08.2024 40

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Freddie Flintoff’s second coming

15.08.2024 3

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Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour is a hopeful, tear-jerking delight

13.08.2024 2

New Statesman

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In Sheffield’s new top foodie destination something gnaws at me and it isn’t hunger

In Sheffield to do an interview, I linger in Cambridge Street, open-mouthed at the sight of its newly restored buildings. How astonishing to think...

20.07.2024 2

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Rachel Cooke

Farewell, with regret … Kirsty Wark, Newsnight’s smiling assassin in stripes

In the same week that Britain’s first female chancellor arrived at HM Treasury to a round of applause, Kirsty Wark left the BBC’s Newsnight after...

13.07.2024 2

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Rachel Cooke