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Justine Greening interview: 'It's about understanding what it's like to start from scratch'
Justine Greening says that the Conservatives will not win big until they really home in on social mobility
Revealed: the Kremlin files which prove that Nato never betrayed Russia
Claims by Putin and Gorbachev about the post-Soviet settlement are contradicted by their country’s own secret records
I know that Richard Dawkins is wrong about Down’s syndrome, because I know my son
I know that people with Down’s syndrome are not better off dead, because I know my son
Italy is killing refugees with kindness
Italy’s decriminalising of illegal immigration has acted as a green light to boat people, and the journey is a deadly one
The surprise winners from the referendum? Scotland. Politics. Big ideas are back at last
Whatever the outcome of the referendum, Scotland will be better for having had the debate
Is Britain hardening its heart against Muslims?
The headlines give British Muslims good reason to worry
Sicily – notes from a large island
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Sicily is anything like the Isle of Wight: it’s 70 times the size,…
Revealed: The hidden crisis in Britain's ambulance services
Britain’s ambulance services are in crisis. When will the government notice?
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
Meet Vladimir Putin's real challengers (they're even worse than he is)
Cuddly liberals aren’t going to displace Putin: his real challengers are ultra-nationalists like Igor Strelkov
Rotherham has proved it again: social work just doesn't work
The appalling abuse in Rotherham suggests it does not
Switching on to a new generation gap
In the world of YouTube and Netflix, generations no longer share a culture
The wars that really are about the oil
You can’t understand any of the world’s crises without understanding petropolitics
The nun who took down an Isis flag – and stands up for east London's Muslims
Sister Christine Frost, who works on an east London estate, sees why young Muslim men are going to fight in Iraq and Syria
Radek Sikorski’s notebook: Goose-steppers in Oxford, and a drone in my garden
As the BA flight from Warsaw landed at Heathrow, I felt a little tremor of anxiety, though it wasn’t anything…
The wonderful and unpredictable Candida Lycett Green
Remembering Candida Lycett Green
The quest for the perfect malt
It was poker night. Five yuppies crammed round a table in a room at the back of a south London…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
Our boys in the Islamic state: Britain's export jihad
Why we lead the West in exporting jihad
Travels in Isis country: priests, Peshmerga and property developers
Arriving in Erbil, you don’t feel you are in Iraq, but another country altogether, which is what the Kurds would…
Looking beyond black and white in Ferguson
The Ferguson riots are more than a simple case of racial division
The Islamic State is destroying the greatest melting pot in history
The fighters of the Islamic State are bringing a deadly new intolerance to a territory rich in ancient sects
Sorry, Kellie Maloney, but to be a woman you must first be a girl
I applaud Frank – now Kellie – Maloney. But I still think being a woman means growing up as one
The SNP’s 'cybernats' are a modern political scourge – with the zeal of converts
Daniel Jackson 30 August 2014 9:00 am
The push for Scottish independence is driven forward by converts’ zeal