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Letter from Donetsk: peace, with missile attacks
For what is technically peacetime, there’s a lot of shelling going on round here. Donetsk airport is still held by…
A casino clash worthy of James Bond reaches its climax in the High Court
A casino drama worthy of a Bond film arrives in the High Court
Napoleon's birthplace feels more Italian than French
Napoleon’s birthplace, Casa Buona-parte, in Ajaccio, Corsica’s capital, is pretty grand. It has high ceilings, generous, silk-lined rooms and a…
The age of selfie-obsession
People can’t seem to stop taking pictures of themselves – and their private parts. It’s the ultimate expression of our increasingly puerile and narcissistic society
Pistols, airstrikes and smuggled cows: a letter from Islamic State border country
Turkey, Syria It is the early hours of the day that Parliament votes on whether to bomb the so-called ‘Islamic…
My boy the radical Muslim
Reckoning with my stepson’s turn to radical Islam
What really scares Beijing about the Hong Kong protests
Hong Kong’s protests reflect not just tension with the mainland, but a great Chinese tradition. That’s what really scares Beijing
Am I wrong to fear another Tiananmen?
Looking at these protests, I fear another Tiananmen
I'm a divorced Catholic. And I'm sure it would be a mortal sin for me to take Communion
I’m one of those despised Catholics who actually believes the basics. And that’s why I don’t take Communion
Clive James on his late flowering: ‘I am in the slightly embarrassing position where I write poems saying I’m about to die and then don’t’
Clive James on poetry, civilisation and the critical benefits of facing leukaemia
Serenade
Come to the garden, that familiar place Where life renews itself against all odds. Untightening buds act out their memory,…
What will it take for us to stop doing business with Qatar?
Qatari money has flooded into London – but also into much less savoury places
The lost horses of London
The days when horses and humans lived cheek by jowl in the capital are unarguably over. Brewers’ drays have disappeared,…
Serenade
Come to the garden, that familiar place Where life renews itself against all odds. Untightening buds act out their memory,…
Serenade
Come to the garden, that familiar place Where life renews itself against all odds. Untightening buds act out their memory,…
Cameron signals left, but turns right. Can he please now choose a direction?
The PM signals left while turning right. But now it’s time for clarity
How an Oxford degree – PPE – created a robotic governing class
Britain is now run by Oxford PPE graduates. The consequences have been disastrous
Václav Klaus: The lies Europe tells about Russia
Václav Klaus, the former Czech president, on David Cameron, the EU, Russia — and the end of free speech
Why do we care about the mutts from Manchester and not the chickens from KFC?
Our attitude to animals and their suffering is bonkers
Students - bunk off your sex classes and learn on the job
Universities are forcing undergraduates to attend sex education classes. Poor students
The soul, a poem, John Whitworth
The soul is like a little mouse. He hides inside the body’s house With anxious eyes and twitchy nose As…
Michael Fallon: parliament needs the 'courage' to vote for war
The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is an eager interventionist
Artists’ houses
I’m not sure what took me to Salvador Dalí’s house in Port Lligat, but it sure as hell wasn’t admiration.…
The Soul
The soul is like a little mouse. He hides inside the body’s house With anxious eyes and twitchy nose As…
The Soul
The soul is like a little mouse. He hides inside the body’s house With anxious eyes and twitchy nose As…
