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Rashida Jones reveals why she was let go from ‘The Office’ after 1 season

New York Post 27 Mar 2025
Rashida Jones was at peace when it was time to clock out of work for good ... “It did not feel that way,” Jones quickly stated ... Rashida Jones is seen arriving at “CBS Mornings” on July 8, 2024 in New York City.
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The Boden Belt: the Lib Dems are the new party of the posh

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
Whether it is the Boat Race in April (Richmond) or the Derby in June (Epsom and Ewell), or even Wimbledon and Henley in July, everywhere Pimm’s is served, a Lib Dem is the local MP ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones.
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My hunt for a doctor took a horror movie turn

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
My American guest went down with a cough he could not shift and, after a week of protesting that he couldn’t be ill because he was fully vaccinated for everything, he asked me to take him to a doctor ... Most popular ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .
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How to be a Lord

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
At the end of my first day at the House of Lords, I staggered out with so many books and leaflets and three-ring binders I could barely see over the top ... ‘Lord Young,’ it said ... Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill ... I couldn’t be happier. Nigel Jones ... .
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Dear Mary: How do I stop Ozempic ruining my dinner parties?

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
Q. I enjoy giving dinner parties and put a lot of effort into the preparations. However, recently I have noticed that much of the food I lovingly cook goes uneaten despite proclamations of how delicious it is ... Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... A ... Q.
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A meditation on the beauty of carbon

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru Brahmin’ (in fact ‘two gloomy men and a bright young secretary’) receives yet another letter from a compulsive nail-biter ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .
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Splendid revival of an unsurpassed production: Royal Opera's Turandot reviewed

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
Puccini’s Turandot is back at the Royal Opera in the 40-year old production by Andrei Serban and… well, guilty pleasure is an unfashionable notion these days, but I still feel a batsqueak of shame at enjoying it so much ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .
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Americans are right to hate us

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
In an Appalachian high school, the kids were set the task of writing about Europeans as part of their history curriculum ... ‘You have had three days, Bubba ... ‘All Europeans are bastards.’ ... Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill. I’ll never holiday again ... Nigel Jones ... .
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Heroes of the Norwegian resistance

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
In 2011, I interviewed Gunnar Sonsteby, a hero of Norway’s resistance movement, for The Spectator ... Thon had been criticised for trading in furs with the occupying forces ... Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill. I’ll never holiday again ... Nigel Jones ... .
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Why we’re flocking to matinees

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
The Starland Vocal Band were on to something. In their 1976 hit ‘Afternoon Delight’ they sang, in gruesomely twee harmony ... He’s not the only one ... There’s something hedonistic about a matinee ... Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .
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The curious language of coins

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
Lewis Carroll used to travel with purses divided into separate compartments, each containing the exact number of coins he’d need for a particular transaction (train fare, porter, newspaper and so on) ... Most popular ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .
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Has the Assisted Dying Bill been killed off?

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
The reported decision to postpone the implementation of the Assisted Dying Bill until 2029 might, one must pray, turn out to be a form of legislative euthanasia ... But it should embolden its opponents. Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones.
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Traditional music at its most graceful, ingenious and jaw-dropping 

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
They suggested that nowadays every artist, from pop starlets to indie rebels, relies on ‘track’ to a greater or lesser extent ... Technology increasingly calls the shots ... Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill. I’ll never holiday again ... Nigel Jones ... .
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Ridiculously fun: Assassin’s Creed – Shadows reviewed

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
Grade. A. Sometimes you want to admire the pluck and inventiveness of an indie developer ... The new Assassin’s Creed has you covered there ... Be warned, though ... Talk about a mixed blessing ... other thing. Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .
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I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro 

The Spectator 27 Mar 2025
My Neighbour Totoro is a hugely successful show based on a Japanese movie made in 1988. The setting is a haunted house occupied by two little girls who encounter various creatures rendered on stage by puppets ... Not here ... Julie Burchill ... Nigel Jones ... .

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