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Sam LeithThe Guardian |
“Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime” is the can-do attitude attributed to Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria....
‘Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime’ is the can-do attitude attributed to Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria....
‘Polished and confident, with a melodic voice that lingers long after the final line, Jamir Nazir’s prose pulses with a voice of restraint and...
Remember when Sir Keir Starmer was sold to us as, effectively, the anti-Boris? Where Boris was slapdash, Keir would be methodical; where Boris fibbed...
When I was a nipper, a staple of children’s television was a show called Why Don’t You? The full title, as the theme song made clear, was: “Why...
When I was a nipper, a staple of children’s television was a show called Why Don’t You? The full title, as the theme song made clear, was: “Why...
When I was young and green and working as a gossip columnist, I learned much from the energy and enthusiasm of my colleague Lady Olga Maitland. Long...
I wrote not all that long ago about this disconcerting situation we’re in where the only news story the Prime Minister seems capable of generating...
Some of us lost a lot of our early twenties to a god-game called Dungeon Keeper, in which you built and maintained a dungeon and filled it with...
There’s something, I think, very heartening and touching in reading Andrew Lloyd Webber talk about joining Alcoholics Anonymous at the ripe old age...
“London Has Fallen.” Little did I imagine, when I sat on the sofa with my friend Tanya gorging on Quality Street and enjoying the latest...
Weren’t those images beamed back from the Artemis II mission something to catch the breath in the throat? If something in you wasn’t stirred by...
Sometimes, a nickname comes along so excellently unkind that you know it’s going to stick. One such is “MattGPT” – which will, I...
“Vulgar, vulgar, vulgar,” was the verdict of the late Lord Charteris on Sarah Ferguson. He did not, I think, mean it as a compliment. But her...
Lordy. The Resident Evil survival horror series is three decades old. It probably qualifies by now as Sitting Tenant Evil. Picture it snacking on...
Reform’s Richard Tice has been the subject of what I fear is intended as a hit-piece in the Sunday Times. “The Deputy Leader of Reform UK...
The social media video with which the White House has promoted its attack on Iran is, even by the standards we’ve come to expect from the Trump...
So farewell then, Ayatollah Khamenei. I’m put in mind of Private Eye’s cover on the death of Hendrik Verwoerd. “A Nation Mourns” read the...
So: is the game up? Looking at the former Prince Andrew’s slumped posture, corpse-grey face and thousand-yard stare in the snatched photographs of...
A cairn, as readers will know, is a pile of stones often placed to mark a grave. Yikes. Not the most encouraging title to give to a videogame about...
I’ve long had a theory – despite knowing many clever and nice people who work in the sector – that consultancy firms don’t have...