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The Times Literary Supplement No. 6250
In the gladiatorial arena of BBC’s Newsnight, interviewer Jeremy Paxman once seemed invincible. During the first Gulf War in 1991, however, a young Israeli spokesman, speaking fluent American English, bullied Paxman back and bested him. (He barnstormed the television networks in America too.) For many this was their first sighting of Benjamin Netanyahu, destined to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.
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A real papist plot. How did Henry VIII’s love letters to Anne Boleyn get to the Vatican?
By Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Kendra Packham And Estelle Paranque
Netanyahu in his own words. A divisive politician’s harsh philosophy of survival
By Ari Shavit
Big tech is reading your mind. How software engineers became social engineers in our democracies
By N. J. Enfield
Drunk on the page. Literary representations of intoxication
By Craig Raine