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8th July 1941: A group of children whose homes have been destroyed by World War II bombing raids enjoy a walk in the English countryside to which they have been evacuated. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

A secret sperm donor service in post-first world war London

3 August 2013 9:00 am

The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war

What a tortoise can teach us

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Five lessons from my new pet

The last male space - why old-fashioned barbers are booming

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Why I love my barber’s

Siempre

1 August 2013 1:00 pm

I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…

Siempre

1 August 2013 1:00 pm

I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…

The elderly are driving the recovery. It's time for generational jihadists to say 'thanks'

27 July 2013 9:00 am

The elderly are being scapegoated for the economic misfortunes of the young – when in fact they are driving the recovery

Walking

27 July 2013 9:00 am

One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…

I’m sick of sponsoring you to suffer

27 July 2013 9:00 am

Every charitable donation now seems to come with a promise to suffer

George Osborne is offering me a £75k bribe if I buy my council house. Should I take it?

27 July 2013 9:00 am

The Chancellor is offering leftish council tenants like me a larger bribe than ever to abandon our principles

As an Anglican ex-bishop, I can tell you: Iran's new president could be our best hope for peace

27 July 2013 9:00 am

If President Hassan Rouhani is anything like his mentor, peace has another chance

Revealed: how exam results owe more to genes than teaching

27 July 2013 9:00 am

New research by Professor Robert Plomin shows genes are more important than we like to think

Notes on…Walking in the Lake District

27 July 2013 9:00 am

What is it about the Lake District? The weather is often filthy, the locals are famously surly (‘sup up and…

Walking

25 July 2013 1:00 pm

One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…

Walking

25 July 2013 1:00 pm

One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…

Colonial rule: Why Aussies, Kiwis and Canadians are running Britain

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Men from the Commonwealth – and they are men – are taking over the British establishment’s positions of power

Outplacements

20 July 2013 9:00 am

He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalance and I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He…

These days, even a good NHS hospital can be a frightening place

20 July 2013 9:00 am

The little signs of a service being pared away

Last orders at the Death Café

20 July 2013 9:00 am

An attempt to break the taboo on mortality with the aid of coffee and biscuits

Sussex vs shale

20 July 2013 9:00 am

What happens when talk of ‘exploratory drilling’ comes to a pretty corner of West Sussex

Germany's war on Barbie

20 July 2013 9:00 am

She’s loathed by topless German neo-feminists. But isn’t it time to cut her some slack?

Has Test Match Special lost its wits?

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Test Match Special is the sound of the English summer. Why are we letting it be vulgarised?

Unassuming: Port-en-Bessin today

Notes on…Normandy

20 July 2013 9:00 am

There are some, I know, who for whom Normandy means the three Cs — cider, cream and calvados. But if,…

Outplacements

18 July 2013 1:00 pm

He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalanceand I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He said,…

Outplacements

18 July 2013 1:00 pm

He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalanceand I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He said,…