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Government needs to think differently about policy for hospitality sector

More than 50 drivers were arrested during the first 10 days of a county wide crackdown on drink and drug driving.

While some of George Brandis’ comments are valid, his excusing of the effects of Israel’s actions on the basis of the “fog of war” does not stand up to objective scrutiny

If you are the boss of a major telco, you should be better at communicating.

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for November 2023. Even as everyone goes up to Harrogate for Thought Bubble.

John Howard says, “the left has had a free rein with this cultural stuff”. As if trying to help the less fortunate is a sin.

John Lees’s oneiric landscapes and portraits are haunted. And not only by his acknowledged sources, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Fauves like Rouault and Dufy, the precursors of Expressionism, the niche to which Lees is usually assigned. There are other ghosts, especially the mysterious landscapes of Samuel Palmer, themselves channels for the otherworldly works of William Blake. So, Lees is a strange kind of Romantic who finds himself painting in the twenty-first century.

How a nation fell in love with the world's last sea-going paddle steamer.

I keep getting drawn into these pale purple outlines in the big painting facing the street, Burning Summit, which, like others in the show (all 2023), uses a palette that is disparate but deeply congruous. It’s only once you stand close that you can even see the wisps of green and halos of purple, but you realize that they’re doing heavy lifting, adding a sweet aesthetic nuance that’s almost geological.

Chief executives of big business companies have been chipping away at workers’ rights for a long time.