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From Spectator LifeRummage through any middle-class pantry or browse the shelves of an artisanal deli, and you’ll spot a constellation of stars. One star denotes ‘simply delicious’. Two suggests ‘outstanding’. Three? ‘Exquisite.’ The stars are handed out by the, Great Taste Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food, which was founded by Bob Farrand in 1992.
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Broke Britain: how the Bank of England wrecked the economy
In February 2020, a few weeks before Britain was thrown into lockdown, Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor of the exchequer over a bust-up with the prime minister’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings. The fight was thought to be over Cummings’s attempts to dictate who could and could not work in No. 11. In fact, it was
Broke Britain: how the Bank of England wrecked the economy
In February 2020, a few weeks before Britain was thrown into lockdown, Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor of the exchequer over a bust-up with the prime minister’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings. The fight was thought to be over Cummings’s attempts to dictate who could and could not work in No. 11. In fact, it was
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We’re all doomed if English literature students can’t read books
We’re accustomed, some of us, to feeling gloomy about the sinking popularity of Eng lit – once comfortably among the most popular choices at A-Level and most applied-for at university, now very much not. We’re accustomed, too, to regretting the gobbetisation of how it’s now taught at GCSE and A-Level, and the drive to teach ever shorter texts in the face of dwindling teenage concentration spans. We’re accustomed, some of us,
A bland, reverential portrait of a socialist martyr: Nye at the Olivier Theatre reviewed
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A cross between Peter Rabbit and Queen Victoria: Bliss: The Composer Conducts reviewed
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A theatrical one-woman show: Billie Eilish at the OVO Hydro, Glasgow reviewed
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Definitely the film of the week: Four Letters of Love reviewed
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The joys of mudlarking
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