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The best British Nutcracker: Rupert Christiansen compares four productions – from the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and McOnie Company

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Even in the deepest mineshaft we’re surrounded by light we can’t see, explains Jacqueline Yallop, drawing on quantum physics to help dispel ordinary night terrors

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‘Nobody should ever be afraid of sharing their poetry’, Jeremy Corbyn says, in an anthology co-edited with Len McCluskey. But, judging by his own offering, afraid is what we should be

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James Walvin's 'Amazing Grace' traces the unlikely origins of the ubiquitous hymn, but never quite gets the nub of *why* it's so popular. Features 'horrid impiety and profaneness' (but not nearly enough of it): spectator.co.uk/article/the-po… review Spectator Culture

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Once in a while there comes along a book by a fellow explorer that you wish to heaven you’d had the wherewithal and body of knowledge to write yourself. This is such a book: History of the Caucasus by Christoph Baumer reviewed

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Laura Gascoigne spies the Antichrist, a fish with legs and a flasher gatecrashing Hieronymus Bosch's Nativity

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‘A ramble against the dying of the light’. I compare Marcus Berkmann to Stephen Potter, Samuel Beckett and Dante Alighieri for The Spectator Spectator Culture. spectator.co.uk/article/the-ho…

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The book doesn’t develop an argument so much as approach it from different angles, in the way a drunk might approach a lock with a key

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Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb could sit there for an entire episode just breaking wind, stuffing his face with kebabs and reciting the telephone directory, and still you’d watch, enthralled

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If you haven’t heard of Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni you might wonder why not. Institutional racism? Patriarchal hegemony? Not this time. Gazzaniga was a Neapolitan composer of perfectly adequate operas that simply aren’t as good as Mozart’s

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Alexander Larman is forced to consider the erotic potential of Timmy the dog in the Famous Five books

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Bradley Cooper has pulled off a piece of cinematic chutzpah worthy of Lenny himself. His secret? The last quality you associate with the most embarrassingly flamboyant genius in American musical history: understatement

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham finds 1960s housewives rejoicing in stainless steel draining boards in their new high-rise flats

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Michael Hann faces up to the return of the ‘stomp, clap, hey’ school of music

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Sporting trivia, the language of cats and the comic genius of Barry Cryer feature among the best of the year’s stocking-fillers

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