The Finer Things
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The great electric car conundrum: In 35 years, driving a petrol car will be like driving a steam engine. But is now the time to make the switch to an EV?
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The story of how 007 creator Ian Fleming came to write Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
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Opinion: A vanishingly rare thing has happened — we have a minister for culture who actually sounds like he's visited some of the places he has responsibility for
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We used to fly cars across the English Channel in 20 minutes — why did we stop?
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The genius inventors who created the world's most important clocks
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More Champagne, madam? The beautiful train journeys that bring back the Golden Age of travel
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'Where new money transforms into old, via a century’s worth of luxury automobiles': A report from Monterey Car Week
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An exhibition that brings together the gun that started the First World War, Hemingway's typewriter, Captain Scott's snow goggle and Sgt Pepper's Drum
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'As a child I wanted to snuggle up with the dogs and be part of it': Alexia Robinson chooses her favourite painting
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Curious Questions: Who invented the rear-view mirror?
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The beauty of bespoke: A journey with Julia Lloyd George
Style & Fashion
The Country Life guide to weddings
Motoring
Art & Auctions
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My Favourite Painting: Geraldine Collinge
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My Favourite Painting: Rachel Podger
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What's for sale on 'the most mouth-watering shopping list in Britain'?
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The Pre-Raphaelite painter who swapped 'willowy, nubile women' for stained glass — and created some of the best examples in Britain
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George Stubbs (1724–1806): Hero of the turf
My Favourite Painting
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'I can’t look away. I’m captivated': The painter who takes years over each portrait, with the only guarantee being that it won't look like the subject
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My Favourite Painting: Rob Houchen
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My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Clarkson
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The chair of the National Gallery names his favourite from among the 2,300 masterpieces — and it will come as a bit of a shock
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'A wonderful reminder of what the countryside could and should be': The 200-year-old watercolour of a world fast disappearing
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My favourite painting: Andrew Graham-Dixon