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Merkel will win - because my fellow Germans dare not speak of national self interest
Germany’s integrationalist elite are prepared to pay out forever to protect the euro
I exposed the 'Plebgate' stitch-up last year. So why are the police still investigating?
Was there a conspiracy against Andrew Mitchell? And why have the police gone quiet on the subject?
Notes on …Vodka
James Bond’s ‘Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred’ will never be a mark of sophistication for me because vodka and I…
Britain's best one-liners, from Oxford's 2013 edition
A selection from the latest edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, edited by Gyles Brandreth
Transylvania Diary by Thomas W. Hodgkinson - diary
Ehe-Gefängnis. The word, strictly speaking (which is how one should always speak), means ‘marriage prison’, and refers to an austere…
End of the party - how British political leaders ran out of followers
The decline of tribal loyalties spells the end of the big traditional political organisations
Braveheart banking: the fall of RBS
The RBS disaster has a distinctly Scottish flavour
Richard Dawkins interview: 'I have a certain love for the Anglican tradition'
Richard Dawkins shows off his human side
The importance of not being called Nigel
The importance of not being Nigel
Time for our leaders to stop talking about 'justice' in Syria if we can't or won't enforce it
Our leaders should stop talking about ‘justice’ in Syria – honesty may be the best and only realistic policy
When Syria sneezes, Lebanon catches a cold
Beirut News that the Syrian regime has agreed to hand in its arsenal of chemical weapons is a great…
The ideal death show
I am in a yurt, talking about death. Everyone is seated in a circle, and I am the next-to-last person…
Notes on…Classic cruising
We arrive at the tiny Greek island of Sikinos on a blustery day, making landing rather difficult. Is there transport…
Why zig-zagging Obama can't be taken seriously on Syria
The West does have a dog in the Syria fight. But it’s on the losing side of the losing side
Obama knows that America has lost its appetite for war
Obama has realised that America has lost its appetite for war
Seamus Heaney's poems are for Protestants too
Seamus Heaney’s poetry from the other side of Northern Ireland’s divide
Italians for Maggie
The Circolo Culturale Margaret Thatcher, which wants to institute an Anglo-Saxon Tory party in Italy, has a plan
Parliament has finally woken up – because voters are keeping their MPs in line
Today’s MPs are no longer scared of the whips. Instead, they are scared of their constituents. That’s a good thing
Hospital food isn’t a joke. It’s a scandal
Hospital food isn’t a joke. It’s a scandal
Notes on…Sicily
It could be, in Sicily, there comes a time when you’ve had your fill of seaside calamari and cheap white…
David Cameron’s wars: How the PM learned to love precision bombing
Supporters of intervention in Syria will be the first to desert Cameron when the going gets tough
Whoever wins in Syria, its Christians will lose
Don’t expect the government to raise its voice for Syria’s Christians
The charity that could make you love social workers
The charity that could make the public love social workers– and why many social workers don’t like it
Welcome to Ryanair Britain
Local councils, banks, railway companies and the taxman have all learned the art of ‘pirate pricing’
Letter from Somaliland
Ayan Mahamoud, one of the organisers of Hargeysa’s International Book Fair, has all the girly vulnerability of a factory-tested steel…
