Category: Books

Sadiq Khan, Stephen Fry and Emily Thornberry make new year honours list

Mayor of London ‘truly humbled’ to be made a knight as authors, actors and sporting stars receive honoursSadiq Khan and Stephen Fry received knighthoods along with the former England manager Gareth Southgate while...

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Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair

Exclusive: Former Australian PM witnessed ‘shocking act of perjury’ and says MI5 are still trying to hide somethingThe former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused the UK government of hypocrisy and...

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Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagallMaggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor whose work ranged from The Prime of Miss Jean...

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Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ discovered under Thomas Hardy’s home

Enclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...

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‘Scam and scandal’: ex-aid chief raises alarm over £4bn Tory asylum contracts

The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during CovidThe billions of pounds spent on housing asylum seekers is ripe...

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Foreign Office officials said Rishi Sunak should attend D-day event, book reveals

Department twice provided written advice to No 10 before mistake that came to define Sunak’s election campaignSenior officials at the Foreign Office repeatedly warned No 10 that Rishi Sunak should not leave June’s...

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