Prison van attack / France is spiralling out of control
State visit / Putin can’t hide how dependent he is on Beijing
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Books / Why are the German authorities so reluctant to believe in neo-Nazi attacks?
Shooting / Slovakia is united after the assassination attempt on Fico. It won’t last
Theatre / Fawlty Towers – The Play is the best museum piece you’ll ever see
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Veep show
The race to become Trump’s running mate
Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate?
We are in the fifth week of Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial and the real scandal is that it’s all so intensely boring. Sex, porn-star witnesses, shady lawyers, a president in the dock – the headlines are a tabloid dream. The crux of the case, however, is a bunch of tedious charges to do with
Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate?
We are in the fifth week of Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial and the real scandal is that it’s all so intensely boring. Sex, porn-star witnesses, shady lawyers, a president in the dock – the headlines are a tabloid dream. The crux of the case, however, is a bunch of tedious charges to do with
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Meet the man who says improvisation is the key to Mozart
From the magazineIn August 1993, the pianist Robert Levin sat down in Walthamstow Assembly Rooms with the conductor Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) to record the complete piano concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was big – the bicentenary celebrations of 1991 had made a global impact. And Hogwood and the AAM were
Beguiling: Yinka Shonibare, at the Serpentine Galleries, reviewed
From the magazinePredictable but has a certain French verve: Two Tickets to Greece reviewed
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From the magazineFawlty Towers – The Play is the best museum piece you’ll ever see
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‘‘He might get back in...’’
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‘‘We will only accept anyone.’’
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