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For the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film should perhaps come with a warning. Everything in it is tinged with wistfulness – a goodbye…

Sometimes it’s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm … Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary. But surely no one…

In 2007 I was preparing to move from Brisbane to the UK. I was 21, I’d just finished university and my family had been through a…

I’ve shed many tears in Claire’s Accessories over the years (specifically, the Upper West Side one on 82nd and Broadway, and even more specifically, because my…

Late-night hosts dig into Donald Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner and an unnerving story about radioactive wasps.Stephen Colbert“You know something? No, you…

In December 2024 I arrived in Sydney ready for an adventure. A friend was getting married in Australia and I had originally booked the trip with…

I grew up in the bush, and in 1966, as soon as I was old enough, I ran off and joined the navy. I loved the…

In 2015 I was making my European debut singing the role of Tatiana in Tchiakovsky’s Eugene Onegin in Berlin. I’d been offered the contract at relatively…

Like a chronic ailment, strategic incoherence gnaws at everything Britain does in the world. Keir Starmer’s real achievement in resetting relations with mainland Europe – witness…