Category: Books

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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Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health by Sophie Harman – the war on wellbeing

The British academic offers a devastating diagnosis of the forces that have shaped female healthcare worldwide, along with a powerful prescription for change to remedy the failings, inequalities and injusticesThe new Labour...

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Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88

The prolific actor appeared in more than 190 films and TV shows and was a vocal anti-war activistDonald Sutherland: a life in picturesDonald Sutherland, whose acting career spanned six decades and included starring in such...

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Liz Truss says in book Queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen

Ex-prime minister, who lasted just 49 days, says she struggled to cope with death of monarch and self-inflicted economic disasterIn a new memoir, Liz Truss recounts the advice she was given by Queen Elizabeth II when they met in...

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‘I detest bullies’: Dr Rachel Clarke on Jeremy Hunt, government lies and the long legacy of Covid

The ‘industrial scale of death’ on the Covid frontline left Clarke and her colleagues traumatised and underpaid while the powerful partied and profited. Now, her pandemic memoir is coming to TV with the help of Jed...

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Thatcher ‘utterly shattered’ by MI5 revelations in Spycatcher, files reveal

National Archives papers show prime minister tried in vain to avoid inquiry over Peter Wright’s memoirsMargaret Thatcher was “utterly shattered” by the revelations in Spycatcher, the memoirs of the retired MI5...

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