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Thursday briefing: What really happened at Chequers?

In today’s newsletter: As fresh allegations of lockdown gatherings emerge, the former prime minister finds himself facing new questions – and a new threat to his political future

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Dominic Raab to stand down as MP at next election

Former deputy PM not planning to contest Esher and Walton seat, after quitting cabinet over bullying claims

The Guardian - UK

Queen Cleopatra review: casting is not the problem with Netflix docudrama

Netflix’s drama-documentary made headlines last month when the Egyptian government denounced it as a “historical fallacy”, because the show insists that Cleopatra was black, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. No one knows what colour Cleopatra’s skin was, but she is widely believed to have been of Greek-Macedonian descent.

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Syd Bloke Fined For Using Phone While Driving Beats Charge After Proving He Was Eating Cheese Dip

A Sydney bloke who was fined for using his phone while driving has beaten the charge after proving he was, in fact, holding a packet of crackers and cheese dip. The hero we need but don’t deserve, an icon, et cetera.As reported by the Daily Telegraph, the 35-year-old fella, who…

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Luxury and power: Persia to Greece review – a ‘glittering magpie’s nest’

The ancient civilisations of Greece and Persia were enemies for centuries – and their disagreements didn’t only find expression on the battlefield, said Daisy Dunn in The Daily Telegraph. As this “major new exhibition” demonstrates, they had starkly contrasting attitudes towards luxury goods. From the Persian perspective, “lovely things” such…

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How Australia’s newspapers reacted to the 2023 federal budget

Cartoons of treasurer Jim Chalmers dominated front pages, while the budget works ‘a Chalm’ for the voter featured on the Daily Telegraph

The Guardian - AU

‘Charlie is my darling’: what the papers say on king’s coronation day

UK newspaper front pages offer souvenir editions and supplementary pullouts to mark the crowning of King Charles III

The Guardian - AU

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Coronation countdown: a ‘tightrope’ for the royal family

Rehearsals were underway this week for Saturday’s coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla.

The Week

Tartan review: V&A Dundee explores tartan’s history and significance

Tartan may well be “the most categorised textile on Earth”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. There are more than 11,000 recognised varieties of this grid of “geometric patterns of coloured thread”, each one of them loaded with symbolism. Over the centuries, tartan has been “a source of pride,…

The Week

Retrograde review: a ‘rousing and propulsive’ show at Kiln Theatre

Ryan Calais Cameron is having quite a year, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. This spring, his breakout play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy completed its journey from fringe to West End. Now he has given us something utterly different, and…

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A Bunch Of Celebs Who Attended Kyle Sandilands’ Lavish Wedding Have Revealed Some BTS Tea

“Albo was having a great time.”

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Barry Humphries obituary: cerebral satirist who created Dame Edna Everage

During an appearance on Desert Island Discs in 2009, Barry Humphries declared that he would be happy if his obituaries made no mention of Dame Edna Everage, the monstrous Melbourne housewife he had created half-a-century earlier. Some hope, said The Times. True, Dame Edna wasn’t his only alter ego: there was also…

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex ‘sent letter to King over concerns about unconscious bias’

According to the Daily Telegraph, the letter was sent following Harry and Meghan’s appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show in March 2021.

Evening Standard

Duchess of Sussex ‘sent letter to King over concerns about unconscious bias’

According to the Daily Telegraph, the letter was sent following Harry and Meghan’s appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show in March 2021.

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Obsession review: cringeworthy Netflix adaptation of Josephine Hart’s Damage

Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was the Fifty Shades of its day, “only much darker and much more elegantly written”, said Helen Brown in The Daily Telegraph. It was made into a film starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, and now Netflix has turned it into a four-part TV series…

The Independent UK

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Japan’s master of electronic music

A prolific solo artist and composer who worked with musicians from Bowie to Madonna, Sakamoto refused to stay within the confines of one genre

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Ferrari Purosangue review: what the car critics say

Ferrari has launched its first four-seat, four-door model, said The Daily Telegraph. It insists that this is “categorically not an SUV”, but “if it walks like an SUV and quacks like an SUV...” The Purosangue – “pure blood” or “thoroughbred” – is a family car. But why would you buy…

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Evan Gershkovich: Wall Street Journal reporter latest in long line of journalists punished for doing their job

For the first time since the cold war, Moscow has accused a US journalist of espionage. Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, was arrested in Yekaterinburg on March 29 by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The reporter, a Russia specialist, insists he was there to report on…

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CPTPP: is trade deal first sign of Brexit’s sunlit uplands?

The Government struck a deal to join an 11-member Asia-Pacific trade bloc last week, a step hailed by No. 10 as an example of Britain seizing its “post-Brexit freedoms”.

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Blue Lights review: the BBC’s cracking new cop drama set in Belfast

I wouldn’t blame anyone who felt they had seen more than enough cop dramas on British TV, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph – but the BBC’s latest six-part thriller is a cracker. Written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, who brought us The Salisbury Poisonings, Blue Lights doesn’t…

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Trip of the week: the elemental beauty of the Outer Banks in North Carolina

A “fragile chain” of barrier islands that shadows the mainland coast of North Carolina for 200 miles, the Outer Banks are well-known in the US for their “sandy, windswept beauty” and rich folklore. And yet they still feel “quiet” and “remote”, says Jacqui Agate in The Daily Telegraph – and make…

The Guardian - AU

News Corp gives Barack Obama’s swipe on ‘splintering’ Murdoch media a wide berth

Daily Telegraph fails to land blame on Malcolm Turnbull for the former US president’s comments. Plus: Andrew Bolt scolds Mark Latham

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson can’t be written off until ‘buried at crossroads with stake in his heart’, says former boss

Max Hastings, former editor of the Daily Telegraph, said Boris Johnson has done ‘terrible things’ to the Tories

The Week

Challenge Anneka review: it’s back and as heartwarming as ever

Nearly 30 years after Challenge Anneka was last on our screens, “Anneka Rice is back”, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. “And frankly, I don’t know how we’ve managed without her” – the woman is a “ray of sunshine”. The show was a massive hit at the time, and…

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