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The 2015 general election was a watershed which will determine whether we are to remain together as one United Kingdom – and one United Kingdom that can look forward to a future with its closest European neighbours. As with the emergence of Irish nationalism a century ago, and the discovery that it could not be contained within the UK’s parliamentary system, the very boundaries of the nation are now in play. At a time of rapid global change and fast emerging rival powers, that is not in the national interest. Читать дальше...

It is a rivalry and it is not. Where shoppers normally dawdle down Manchester’s Deansgate on a Saturday afternoon, Jessica Ennis-Hill will make her return to competition in the women’s 100m hurdles at Saturday’s Great City Games, 80 minutes after Katarina Johnson-Thompson opens her outdoor season over double the distance.

The Royal Opera House must be hoping that ballet audiences are not afraid of Virginia Woolf. On Monday the curtain rises on the choreographer Wayne McGregor’s first full-length narrative work for the Royal Ballet: Woolf Works, an ambitious creation inspired by three of the novelist’s books, plus the tragic story of her own life and death.

Peter Morgan has updated the script for The Audience to reflect the results of yesterday’s General Election and HMQ inviting Conservative Party leader David Cameron to form a new government.

As Britain wakes this morning to news of winners and losers, there is an added poignancy in remembering this date 70 years ago, when the country celebrated a victory as one; when unity was, for a while, the order of the day.

BT, it seems, is back, with a profit last year of £2.6bn, and a record number of broadband customers strengthening its hold on that highly competitive market.

The last time Jack Green wore a GB vest it was supposed to be the highlight of his career. But in the semi-finals of the 400m hurdles at London 2012, he hit one of the barriers and clattered to the ground.