Festive generosity can ‘quietly follow households well into the new year’, according to budgeting tool IE Hub.
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Joy, in a well. The start of the season could not have been more disastrous. Cuadri’s prestigious iron has left a fat, black blur. Large bulls – the first, weighing…
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Gloriously, it is anything but. It’s an open-armed place, one that welcomes anyone and everyone, so long as they’ll buy a drink. Lemonade is permitted; tomato juice raises a wry…
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‘Bitter Christmas’: even the feelings are by design. There you | Cinema: premieres and reviews
by News Roomby News RoomI don’t know who invents certain terms, or what interests they serve, but they make every god (I exaggerate; some of us are allergic to them) continually use them to…
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London leaver: ‘We swapped Brentford for Bangkok, halved our rent to £800 and work a three-day week’
by News Roomby News RoomWhen not at work they have been getting to know Bangkok’s bars and restaurants, spotting water monitors – huge lizards which, fully grown, are around 7ft long – during runs…
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Three stories for his daughters before Franco’s vile garrote | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomBefore the painter Lorenzo Aguirre was taken from his cell to be executed with a garrote one morning in October 1942; before the artist tried to calm his executioner by…
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Faced with the regret of not feeling loved, the poet Cesare Pavese had written in his diary: “All this is disgusting. Enough words. A gesture. I will not write more.”…
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The newest polpette-slinger on the block, CeCe’s, is the latest restaurant from the Public House Group (Fat Badger, The Hero and so on). Meatballs are a standalone dish here and…
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‘RI TE’: desacralize the untouchable with power and a few laughs | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomTowards the end of the show, about 15 minutes before it ended, a spectator in the front row left the room. To do so, he had to walk along the…
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Escape to an uninhabited island: Sweden is searching for custodians for five islands
by News Roomby News RoomAccording to a spokesperson from the tourist board, the islands were chosen because of their varied scenery — Tjuvholmen is wooded, for example, while Skötbådan is a tiny, low-lying rock—…