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I assembled a crack squad of tasters to try frozen Christmas food – these are the items worth buying
There is no reason not to enjoy an entire Christmas out of your freezer, from canapés to pudding
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From incessant crowers to Robbie Williams – the noisy neighbours making lives hell
Sergey and Maria Grazhdankin may have won the war against floorboards and footsteps, but not everyone is so lucky
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The King's Birthday: 75 years in pictures
The defining images that capture the making of our monarch
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Why I’m A Celebrity could be exactly what Nigel Farage’s career needs
He’s not the first politician to head into the ITV jungle but, unlike those before him, it could be resurgent for his political aspirations
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BBC’s Liz Bonnin: ‘None of us want to be compared to Attenborough’
The presenter's latest documentary, Wild Caribbean, draws attention to a part of the world whose ecology is often overlooked
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‘I was in hospital on morphine, being asked about buying airports’: Life as a celebrity assistant
The relationship between a star and their PA can lead to great closeness or, as in Robert De Niro’s case, lead to a terrible falling out
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How mushrooms became the most fetishised food of 2023
No matter how they are consumed, not a day passes without some fresh reference to the superpowers of fungi
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Eight famous plagiarists who were caught out (and aren’t Labour’s Rachel Reeves)
From Melania Trump’s speech to an Olivia Rodrigo song, many high-profile copycats have slipped up long before the shadow chancellor’s fiasco
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Suggs: ‘All the acting and music jobs now go to the f—ing middle classes’
The Madness singer on how lockdown politics almost split the band apart, why gentrification is killing the arts, and the benefits of therapy
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How to tell if a restaurant is serving you a ready meal
Pre-cooked eggs, coq-au-vin boiled in the bag: it seems there is no limit to the corners restaurants can cut
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I never wanted to be American, but maybe I was wrong
Growing up, I could see the US was deeply uncool. Now, it’s dynamic and culturally confident
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The dos and don’ts of dining on a first date
Manners around eating are as much a part of courtship as the choice of food
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I thought I knew London like the back of my hand – but this game proved me wrong
Metro Memory, which has gone viral, has a simple premise – type in all the Tube station names from memory – but it had me foxed
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If bankers are getting bigger bonuses, I have a way to make things fair
My new system would focus financiers’ minds while also providing the public with regular and hefty doses of schadenfreude
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Women don’t want to date funny men like me – there is another, far more desirable trait
The ‘funny man’ is a British national fantasy – but cracking a joke on a first date may not be a winning evolutionary strategy
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‘Hamas wants to fight in the city – it levels the playing field’: What war in Iraq can teach Israel
Cities are claustrophobic, casualty-heavy places in which to fight – we speak to those who have experienced the horror of it first-hand
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