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Ministers are spending £290m of taxpayers’ money on a scheme that is yet to deliver. It’s our job as public servants to point out flaws in their plans
It was not always inevitable that a policy going badly wrong would lead to blame falling on the civil service.… Read the rest
Tottenham’s talisman broke the game open against an exhausted Newcastle side from an orthodox left-wing position
Son Heung-min was the last player off the pitch at half-time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, not because he was busy pumping the badge on his chest, working the crowd or berating the referee behind his hand, but because he was exhausted, forced to spend 30 seconds or so bent double in the Newcastle penalty area with his hands on his knees.
Lunch with Prue Leith, out favourite food books of 2023, plus cooks and writers on their best meals of the year
Each Christmas Eve, jolly “uncle” Bob, family friend and master butcher, would turn up at our house with a turkey the size of a small family car.
Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent
In 1968 the books pages of the French newspaper Le Monde excitedly praised an uncompromising new novel, Bound to Violence, going on to salute its author as one of “the rare intellectuals of international stature presented to the world by Black Africa”.