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6 February 2016 9:00 am

Was everybody scared? Mum was, certainly. Slip-clinging hold, respectability. World-lost, he didn’t care,   Or didn’t cotton on. Inexplicably, He…

What’s so dangerous about this book about the Church of England?

6 February 2016 9:00 am

The decline of the Church of England has been one of the most astonishing trends in modern Britain. The pews…

François Hollande’s own personal state of emergency

6 February 2016 9:00 am

His response to the Paris terror attacks has left the French president increasingly isolated and unpopular

Life on board a warship in our much-reduced Royal Navy

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Life on board a warship in the era of defence cuts

To survive as a Tory teacher, you have to keep quiet

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Surviving as a Tory teacher means keeping quiet

The NHS has forgotten the art of a dignified death

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Ten years ago, the National Health Service eased my father’s final days. My mother, this year, was not so lucky

Beware the baby-snatchers: how social services can ruin your family

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Why many mothers with post-natal depression now dread a visit from social services

There may never be a better (or cheaper) time to visit South Africa

6 February 2016 9:00 am

There are plenty of places to fly to for winter sun, but only one place that offers five-star hotels for…

Breaking

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

Was everybody scared? Mum was, certainly. Slip-clinging hold, respectability. World-lost, he didn’t care,   Or didn’t cotton on. Inexplicably, He…

Breaking

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

Was everybody scared? Mum was, certainly. Slip-clinging hold, respectability. World-lost, he didn’t care,   Or didn’t cotton on. Inexplicably, He…

South Africa

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

There are plenty of places to fly to for winter sun, but only one place that offers five-star hotels for…

It’s dangerous and wrong to tell all children they’re ‘gender fluid’

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Children are not all ‘gender fluid’. It’s dangerous and wrong to try to persuade them that they are

Another Slice

30 January 2016 9:00 am

All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…

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Turkey is turning into a paranoid one-party state

30 January 2016 9:00 am

President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds

Shooting targets on display at Shot Show (Photo: Getty)

A roomful of firearms and fantasists at the world’s biggest gun show

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Amid the hunters, urban cowboys and trigger-happy heroes at the world’s biggest gun show

What stops women from having it all

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice

Novak Djokovic, the world number one, said that he turned down US$220,000 to throw a match. (Photo: Getty)

This could be the year that sport starts to die

30 January 2016 9:00 am

If sport loses the public’s faith – and it’s starting to – then all its power and glory will fade

Ernest Shackleton and other South Georgia ghosts

30 January 2016 9:00 am

The terrible news that Henry Worsley had died just 30 miles short of crossing the Antarctic continent unsupported reached me…

Masterpieces this way

The Venice Accademia: is this the smallest great gallery in the world?

30 January 2016 9:00 am

The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…

Another Slice

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…

Masterpieces this way

The Venice Accademia

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…

Another Slice

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…

Donald Trump offers only gloom, insults and arrogance - and America loves him for it

23 January 2016 9:00 am

‘The Donald’ is winning because he is angrier than his rivals

Donald Trump is lashing out in all directions

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Trump denounces Muslims, Mexicans… and millionaires

In most state schools, cricket is a dead ball game

23 January 2016 9:00 am

The England team may be riding high, but state schools have all but abandoned cricket