Features
Country house opera
I stole a blanket last night. Rather a nice one, in fact. I feel bad about it, of course, but…
Fiuggi
L’acqua di Bonifazio This spa town sparkles on its hilltop: hydros, park For ballo liscio; stands For…
2067: the end of British Christianity
England’s churches are in deep trouble
Jonathan Portes, master of the political correction
Jonathan Portes, master of the political correction
Adultery websites should be as unacceptable as race-hate websites
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Why I love undertakers
By looking after the dead, funeral directors allow the living to love and mourn them
We should celebrate Magna Carta by abolishing the European Arrest Warrant
The European Arrest Warrant is incompatible with our tradition of justice
How the French won Waterloo (or think they did)
The French would still prefer to think of Napoleon’s last defeat as a moral victory
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Treat the NHS as a religion, and you give it the right to run your life
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, keep fit, die young
The big fat myths of our ‘obesity epidemic’
Obesity isn’t soaring, and it doesn’t strain the NHS
The Charles Kennedy I knew, by Danny Alexander
Charles Kennedy remembered
Why Saudi Arabia is kicking back against the USA
Why America’s once-cautious ally suddenly looks so skittish
Crazy runs for president don’t look so mad when you see what happens next
Every American election needs laughably improbable candidates
How come our cash-strapped universities can afford so many administrators?
At Oxford and elsewhere, university administration is out of control
Why I joined the smiley-face cult
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
How to buy a father’s day present (if you must)
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
Father’s Day
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
Mercenaries could transform the fight against Isis – if we let them
Private military contractors have done wonders against Boko Haram. They could against Isis, too
Iraq may not have the will to survive – and that’s not even the biggest problem
Isis have it. Who else?
Smash Isis now – or we’ll all pay later
Assassinate its leadership, destroy its sense of destiny
