Though voters are already uncomfortable with tax rises because of the cost-of-living crisis, clever phrasing can bring most around to supporting them for the NHS in principle. The electorate is ...

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This story of an office affair starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson is free of sanctimony: the misconduct is too hot to handle. By Ann Manov In The Dying Animal, Philip Roth’s sequel to The ...