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Blinded with science

29 October 2016 9:00 am

We’re continually assured that government policies are grounded in evidence, whether it’s an anti-bullying programme in Finland, an alcohol awareness…

Burlington Arcade

29 October 2016 9:00 am

It all began with oysters. Londoners used to eat them as they walked along, throwing away the shells much as…

Sweet sorrow

29 October 2016 9:00 am

So, is that it? The end of sweetness, and the end of taste? Physically speaking, those things will no doubt…

Murder and politics

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Six months ago an old friend of mine was murdered on his doorstep. This week his killer was sentenced to…

Don’t whistle: Burlington Arcade

Burlington Arcade

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

It all began with oysters. Londoners used to eat them as they walked along, throwing away the shells much as…

Carney must go

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Oh dear. Mark Carney is irritated. His proud independence has been challenged. The Prime Minister had the temerity to admit…

Hope, fights and grammar schools

22 October 2016 9:00 am

A typical Kentish town, with its grammar school at one end and its secondary school at the other, is a…

Ghosts of the seasons

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Forget killer clowns. Halloween was once a very different affair from the Americanised gorefest it is now. In its-original Irish…

Climate of ignorance

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Global greening is the name given to a gradual, but large, increase in green vegetation on the planet over the…

Japan Notebook

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Tokyo is visual chaos everywhere, the antithesis of the Japanese interior. It is a multilevel jumble of overpasses, neon signs,…

Notes on… Champagne

22 October 2016 9:00 am

The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine,…

Carney must go

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Oh dear. Mark Carney is irritated. His proud independence has been challenged. The Prime Minister had the temerity to admit…

Extra sparkle: the best stuff is saved for the Brits

Notes on… Champagne

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine,…

Putin’s next move

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

The old KGB headquarters in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, is a sinister place, full of ghosts. It is a solid…

The road to the Jungle

15 October 2016 9:00 am

 Calais On Sunday evening a British motorist, Abraham Reichman, 35, from Stamford Hill, north London, hit two Eritrean migrants who…

Lights, camera, politics

15 October 2016 9:00 am

At the end of Sunday night’s US presidential debate, the moderators snuck in a final question from a slightly shell…

Jolly good show

15 October 2016 9:00 am

It’s tempting for a Brit to look over the Atlantic and smugly conclude that, after 240 years, the American experiment…

Vanity bombing

15 October 2016 9:00 am

‘When you’ve shouted Rule Britannia, when you’ve sung God Save the Queen, when you’ve finished killing Kruger with your mouth…’…

Words on the street

15 October 2016 9:00 am

A white van pulls up outside St Giles in the Fields, an imposing 18th century church in central London, around…

Have gun, will kill

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Woody Allen said of crime that the hours were good and you meet a lot of interesting people. I don’t…

Hong kong: Eating it up

15 October 2016 9:00 am

The brilliant thing about Hong Kong is that you don’t have to worry for a second about all the culture…

May’s head on the block

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Understand what this government is trying to get away with, and think about how it is trying to get away…

Mississippi hospitality

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Driving into Greenwood after dark, we pull into a gas station and ask directions to a late-night grocery store. ‘Sir……

Breach of Trust

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Ever since it was founded in 1895, the National Trust has been considered a good thing. That oak tree sticker…

Muslim magic

15 October 2016 9:00 am

In 1402, when the Turkic conqueror Temur, better known in the West as Tamerlane, was poised to do battle with…