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Cambridge has fallen

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The Keminisation of the Tory party

‘The genuine progressive’

London: A celebration

Good riddance, Rod • I, for one, won’t miss him

Diverse academia

Can I fucking swear yet?

Party animal • Rod Liddle, the SDP supporter

Farewell, my brave and brilliant friend

The fabulist • Why is Cambridge University so eager to believe Jason Arday?

At the Crease

State of the union • Gen Z has lost faith in marriage

Repeating the sins of the past

Don’t sue • Prince Harry ignored the golden rule

What’s so wrong about a ‘dementia tax’?

The hay wane • Horse owners are battling it out for bales

The robots are coming for make-believe

LETTERS

Overhyped and over-exposed: the fall of AI’s shooting star

Ottomans on the rampage • Justin Marozzi on the bloodstained end of the Byzantine empire

Itty-bitty delights

A sense of jeopardy

Seduced by theory

A journey through love and loss

A colossal failure

New designs for living

The thrill of the chase

Theft – or a gift to the world?

Armchair critiques

Bad blood

The write stuff • Ysenda Maxtone Graham celebrates the dying art of postcard-sending

Close encounters

Dream on

Idiot wind

Troubled waters

Oh, what a circus

The Italian job

Crazy golf

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Dvorkovich’s endgame

Cringe benefits

2764: Placenames

Grasshopper pie

Airport brews

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

The imperfect, inimitable Rod Liddle

MICHAEL HEATH

Infantino is just the tip of the iceberg

Myth the point

Did someone say climate change?

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