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Losing my son and the end of my life’s summer
Hedonism, tragedy and me
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
What I’ve learned helping to found a specialist free school
Lessons from the first year of our specialist maths school
Bristol, the European capital of green nannying and bureaucracy
Environmental nannying is wrecking my beloved Bristol
I found the future of privacy among the treasures of Venice
Almost all of Venice’s greatest treasures are on public view. Anyone who visits can look across from the Doge’s Palace…
Theatre, gossip and Guinness: the craic of Dublin
What a delight it is to toy with a wooden newspaper-holder rather than a smartphone, tucked away in the cosy…
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
Dublin
What a delight it is to toy with a wooden newspaper-holder rather than a smartphone, tucked away in the cosy…
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
A licence to kill - the slippery slope of 'assisted dying'
If you don’t think legalising ‘assisted dying’ is a slippery slope, you haven’t been paying attention
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
The fight to save the Gladstone Arms is a battle for the soul of London
The fight to save the Gladstone Arms is the fight to save London
Breast-feeding isn't always best
New mothers who can’t keep to the breast-feeding orthodoxy face needless misery and shame
Here we go again: the drumbeat for sending troops back to Iraq has begun
Why our politicians keep going back to military intervention, no matter how often it fails
Powder to the people: the new deal for the cocaine market
Fierce competition is forcing drug dealers to adjust their sales methods
Rhinos are being wiped out for the sake of fairytales
Can anything protect the rhino from rapacious human stupidity?
The lessons of exam results season (and what to do about them)
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
Not just a fad: the dangerous reality of 'clean eating'
The ‘clean eating’ revolution is more likely to make you ill than healthy
Hills
As soon as you stop and rest you see more hills ahead, Great chains of hills to some improbable horizon.…
The uglier the man, the uglier the attitude
The uglier the man, the more he demeans women
‘Keep out the Mexicans and al-Qaeda’: with Donald Trump and his fans at the Iowa State Fair
The Iowa State Fair ‘Donnnaaallldd!!! Donnnaaaaallldd!!!’ Donald Trump was surrounded by fans. He looked happy. He took a bite out of…
Capitalism’s most dangerous enemies are on the right
The far left can’t win – unless it has the aid of a callous and complacent right
