Features

I’m nearly 60. I’m still interested in sex. Is that a problem?

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Have I become a dirty old man?

Warning: upspeak can wreck your career

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Upspeak can damage your career prospects

The Marche

15 February 2014 9:00 am

When I first visited the Marche a dozen years ago, folk who knew about such things tapped their noses and…

Meeting in the Small Hours

13 February 2014 3:00 pm

He was there again in the small hours: not this time in a dream, but in a dream of dreaming.…

Meeting in the Small Hours

13 February 2014 3:00 pm

He was there again in the small hours: not this time in a dream, but in a dream of dreaming.…

Alex Salmond is within striking distance of victory. Why hasn’t England noticed?

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Alex Salmond is on course to win. Why hasn’t England noticed?

Zeteticism

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…

America’s right still hates Hillary Clinton. And it still can’t stop her

8 February 2014 9:00 am

The American right hates Hillary Clinton as much as ever. But that doesn’t mean they know how to stop her

The comedy club theory of dictatorship

8 February 2014 9:00 am

The comedy club theory of dictatorship

The quango state: how the left still runs Britain

8 February 2014 9:00 am

David Cameron’s government continues to subsidise its critics

Forgive me, Father

8 February 2014 9:00 am

What Catholics really talk about in the confession box

How the first world war inspired the EU

8 February 2014 9:00 am

To understand the real meaning of the EU, you must grasp that it originated in the first world war, rather than the second

Valentine’s Day

8 February 2014 9:00 am

One of the many things I love about my wife is that she doesn’t make me do anything for Valentine’s…

Zeteticism

6 February 2014 3:00 pm

Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…

Zeteticism

6 February 2014 3:00 pm

Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…

Britain's accidental one-child policy

1 February 2014 9:00 am

The runaway cost of living is making big middle-class families an endangered species

Tulips

1 February 2014 9:00 am

My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…

Why we should let Faroe islanders hunt whales

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Marine charities should stop obsessing about a few Faroe islanders and go after the real villains

The case against London cabbies

1 February 2014 9:00 am

It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers

Israel's other A-bomb

1 February 2014 9:00 am

The other big foreign threat to the Jewish state

Will Test cricket survive the Age of India?

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Will Test cricket survive the Age of India?

Sochi Olympics: Why picking on gays has backfired so horribly for Vladimir Putin

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Russia’s thuggish President has picked on the wrong minority

Bantry Bay

South-west Ireland

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Of course one feels free on a holiday: that’s what holidays are for. But I have rarely felt freer than…

Tulips

30 January 2014 3:00 pm

My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…

Tulips

30 January 2014 3:00 pm

My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…