An MI5 witness in Shamima Begum’s latest appeal over the loss of her UK citizenship said the ISIS bride was an A-star pupil and it was ‘inconceivable’ that she did not know what she was doing when she left to join the terrorist group aged 15. But her lawyers have argued that Ms Begum, now...
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LITERARY FICTION
LITERARY FICTION The Romantic by William Boyd (Viking £20, 464 pp) The Romantic Boyd’s new novel revisits the ‘whole life’ formula of his 2002 hit Any Human Heart, which followed its hero across the 20th century. The Romantic does the same thing for the 19th century. It opens with the kind of tongue-in-cheek framing device...