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I’m nearly 60. I’m still interested in sex. Is that a problem?
Have I become a dirty old man?
Warning: upspeak can wreck your career
Upspeak can damage your career prospects
The Marche
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
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
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?
Alex Salmond is on course to win. Why hasn’t England noticed?
Zeteticism
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
The American right hates Hillary Clinton as much as ever. But that doesn’t mean they know how to stop her
The quango state: how the left still runs Britain
David Cameron’s government continues to subsidise its critics
Forgive me, Father
What Catholics really talk about in the confession box
How the first world war inspired the EU
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
One of the many things I love about my wife is that she doesn’t make me do anything for Valentine’s…
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
Zeteticism
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
The runaway cost of living is making big middle-class families an endangered species
Tulips
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
Marine charities should stop obsessing about a few Faroe islanders and go after the real villains
The case against London cabbies
It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers
Israel's other A-bomb
The other big foreign threat to the Jewish state
Will Test cricket survive the Age of India?
Will Test cricket survive the Age of India?
Sochi Olympics: Why picking on gays has backfired so horribly for Vladimir Putin
Russia’s thuggish President has picked on the wrong minority
South-west Ireland
Of course one feels free on a holiday: that’s what holidays are for. But I have rarely felt freer than…
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…