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Nobody’s Girl reviewed: Virginia Giuffre's memoir on Epstein and Prince Andrew | The Standard podcast

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OPINION - Digital ID cards are the price we all to have to pay for the government's incompetence

Cyber attacks are one of many reasons why this scheme must not happen, says Melanie McDonagh

Evening Standard

Defending the Crown: Why Season Six Part One is better than some critics think

The final season of Netflix's The Crown, the drama based on the lives of the British Royal Family, has finally arrived.

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King Charles's 75th: charity launch and a call from Harry

As King Charles III turned 75 years old, he chose to celebrate by continuing his royal work, and visiting a surplus food distribution centre with the Queen.

Evening Standard

What happened when I tried Jennifer Aniston’s salmon sperm facial

No sooner had the actress uttered the words ‘sperm’ and ‘salmon’, than Melanie McDonagh had booked herself in for the same fishy treatment. But did it work?

Evening Standard

Spotlight on Reynolds review: a treasure trove of portraiture

Sir Joshua Reynolds “dominated the artistic life of England in his age”, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. As the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, Reynolds (1723-1792) held immense power over the country’s art establishment, and was generally “revered” by his fellow painters. Constable, for one,…

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The ‘say maaate’ anti-sexism campaign: a case of right target, wrong action?

The Mayor of London’s new campaign to tackle misogyny has been widely derided as a PR stunt that will do nothing to address the serious dangers faced by women in the capital.

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The Rossettis at Tate Britain review: an ‘evocative’ and occasionally ‘poignant’ show

The Rossettis were a “weird” bunch, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. Born in London to Italian political exiles and raised to be “precocious artists and poets”, they were a major fixture of Victorian Britain’s cultural landscape. Dante Gabriel (1828-82), a painter, would become the co-founder and de facto…

The Week

Talking Point: Is extravagant Valentine’s spending really romance?

From lavish dinners to extravagant gifts, couples are splashing the cash to show their affection this Valentine’s Day.

Evening Standard

Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Welcome to Johnsonism without Johnson

If nothing else, this leadership contest is proving the ‘Boris Johnson as a Brexity Hezza’ [Michael Heseltine] motif was largely correct, even if the glaring internal contradiction meant it would struggle to produce a coherent policy platform.

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'MPs have no right to take away a woman's rights - male MPs most of all'

Saira Khan responds to the evangelical MP Danny Kruger's assertion that women don't have the 'absolute right to bodily autonomy', saying politicians should stay far away from women’s bodily autonomy

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