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Chris Rock, Jennifer Saunders and more have argued that ‘wokeness’ is stifling comedy. But the idea of the joke police is actually nonsense

Abut 30 cars are parked up on State Highway 1 between Kaikōura and Cheviot, with only four-wheel-drive vehicles able to pass.

The worst of the heavy snow that covered parts of Canterbury is likely to pass on Monday, but flurries at sea level in the city are an outside chance.

DOMINIC Cummings began his marathon session before MPs yesterday by saying sorry. Right back at you, fella. I apologise for ever doubting your appearance would live up to the hype, and sorry for wondering if your criticism of Boris Johnson and his Ministers would be blistering enough. Over the course of more than seven hours, Mr Cummings excoriated the Prime Minister and his Government, and the Health Secretary in particular. In doing so he exposed the administration as so grossly incompetent as to have cost people their lives. For all the hundreds of thousands of words expended yesterd...

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 14th Jul 2011 10:30am | By Jahn Vannisselroy Weighed against the try-hard ambiguities of conceptual art, photography is reassuringly tangible – there are still elements appreciated by a cultured eye, but the spectacle is for its own sake, independent of baffling, barely there subtexts. This exhibition beautifully captures the raw power of a picture, the best portraits revealing something of their subjects in one poignant frame, presenting them in a disposition or location that is somehow telli...