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White to play. This position is from So-Giri, Bilbao Masters 2016. How did White make the most of his active…

Magnus Carlsen, the world champion, has added yet another tournament to his extensive list of victories. Although he must have…

The rise of Donald Trump in the US presidential race has had at least one very peculiar consequence: millions of…

It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…

JT LeRoy was a teenage hustler who emerged from a childhood of abuse, drug addiction and homelessness to write about…

It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…

Electronic Dance Music is dying. You may not have noticed. It may not affect you directly. But it’s a really…

An inspired decision to stage Jesus Christ Superstar in a summer theatre in Regent’s Park. The action takes place outdoors,…

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…

One could honour God with prayer, of course, and build cathedrals, amass treasuries, turn choirs into stained-glass jewel boxes, carve…

More brides in Britain go down the aisle to Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ than to any other tune, Simon…

Rupert Sheldrake had it coming. In A New Science of Life (1981), he argued that animals and plants have inherited…

‘Joe lay in bed in his mother’s house. He thought about committing suicide. Such thinking was like a metronome for…

On 11 January 2016 Paul Morley was awoken by an urgent voicemail from the Today Programme. Could he talk about…

All parents worry about the extent to which their children will expose their private weirdness to the world. They tell…

Quick tip, should you ever find yourself alone in the interview room at the police headquarters of Prince George’s County,…

There is an immediate problem for anyone producing a guide to places in Scotland with literary connections: as Walter Scott…

It was a mistake to tell us about the gelati-to-sightseeing ratio. This was the formula my father, his younger sister…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever ITV or the BBC decides — the latter usually with charter renewal…

At the start of the 21st century, no one felt the need to reach for studies of ‘third-period’ communism to…

The backlash has been brutal, unforgiving and, in common with the left’s reactions to so many things, almost hysterical in…

Spy novels and James Bond movies; post-war Vienna and East Berlin; Manchurian candidates and Third Men. The pop culture of…

On Tuesday morning, an 85-year-old man was forced to his knees while his throat was slit by Islamic fanatics. The…

How is your Merkelsommer going? For now, Britain seems to be missing the worst. True, a couple of men of…

Monday morning: one hand trapped beneath the fat and guzzling midget, with the other I idly opened the gates of…