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Catch the latest Financial News EventsI have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili
The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of thatAfter 15 years of turning down offers to perform standup comedy in Saudi Arabia due to the country’s human rights...
That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days
It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sitter looks back‘Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!” Laughter explodes down the...
Drone dilemma: How Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ is using fear to destabilise Europe
As Moscow’s suspected drone incursions threaten chaos, Europe faces a dilemma: respond and risk escalation, or face accusations of weakness• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen Munich airport had to close on 2 October after a suspected...
Tory plan to abolish stamp duty ‘will benefit London and the wealthiest the most’ – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereVoting in the Labour deputy leadership election opens today. Lucy Powell, the former Commons leader, is seen as the favourite and, as Jessica Elgot reports, Powell told supporters yesterday that, if she is...