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Richard Williams

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‘24 Hours: 100 Years of Le Mans' out now from Simon & Schuster. Music blog: https://t.co/eimmxsfy3O

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Word of Christmas Day, as always, is
‘confelicity’: joy in the happiness of others.

The fellow emotion to ‘compassion’, literally ‘a suffering with’.

Wishing you confelicity aplenty this Christmas.

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If you wanted to invent a technology to destroy football, while making lots of money for the people who design, build, sell and operate it, you could not come up with anything more successful than VAR.

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Enzo & his women: It was fun to write the cover story for the new issue of ⁦Motor Sport magazine⁩ to coincide with Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ movie, in which the women are at least as significant as the cars.

Enzo & his women: It was fun to write the cover story for the new issue of ⁦@Motor_Sport⁩ to coincide with Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ movie, in which the women are at least as significant as the cars.
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Note to the FT’s pop critic: Phil Spector’s Christmas album was never a “compilation”. It was conceived and recorded as a single piece of work in the summer of 1963.

Note to the FT’s pop critic: Phil Spector’s Christmas album was never a “compilation”. It was conceived and recorded as a single piece of work in the summer of 1963.
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A very interesting piece on the cyberattack at the British Library by ⁦Sam Knight⁩. What it doesn’t explore is how or even whether these industrial-scale hackers can be caught and eliminated. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

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We post a lot of our explainer videos on the BBC News (UK) YouTube channel. The latest is 6 minutes on the Houthi rebels. youtube.com/watch?v=LJqvBV…

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Touching statement from Brianna’s head teacher - ‘losing Brianna has been heartbreaking. She was a creative, witty young lady ..

Touching statement from Brianna’s head teacher - ‘losing Brianna has been heartbreaking. She was a creative, witty young lady ..
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Excellent story. What worries me about the arrival of Nuno Espírito Santo and the influence of his agent Jorge Mendes is that will turn, as Wolves did in their time, into a Portugal Select XI.

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Today’s edition of what was once the Evening Standard: 18 pages of restaurant coverage, four pages of property, one page of puzzles, a full-page M&S ad, and… er, that’s it.

Today’s edition of what was once the Evening Standard: 18 pages of restaurant coverage, four pages of property, one page of puzzles, a full-page M&S ad, and… er, that’s it.
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Occasionally I’ve woken up in the night wondering if I was wrong to give Bob Dylan’s Christmas album a four-star review in the Guardian back in 2009. This account of one of the recording sessions persuades me that I was right.

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Gove giving a keynote speech in housing policy in central London rather than to Houses of Parliament: A former cabinet minister tells me there’s “lots of unhappiness” that he’s giving speech and not speaking in Parliament. “One of the most blatant breaches of the Ministerial Code…

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