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James Cleverly - who this week allegedly called Stockton a 'sh**thole' - is not the only Tory MP to have been accused of dissing or smearing areas across the UK

NatWest is poised to scrap a £10 million payout to former boss Dame Alison Rose, who quit over the handling of the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account in July.

Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends

We asked nine experts to name their all-time favourite Vaughan Williams piece. Learn all about the great composers and works with classical-music.com

Simon Heffer is the supreme Stakhanovite among British writers. Where the original Stakhanov moved 227 tonnes of coal in a single shift, within the past decade Heffer has produced four massive volumes of modern British history, each little less than 1,000 pages. Alongside them he has edited three equally voluminous diaries of the waspish socialite

Suella Braverman has said what everyone else was thinking: illegal migration is an existential threat

The then British Prime Minister believed - or desperately wanted to believe - that if he and Hitler were together in a room, having a gent-to-gent chat, a relationship of trust could be established.

The ‘men in grey suits’ appeared a century ago, took up arms in the Heath era – and as this superb book shows, haven’t laid them down since

Simon Heffer sets out to defend Neville Chamberlain, arguing that he has been unfairly cast as Hitler’s craven appeaser

The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87