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Colonial rule: Why Aussies, Kiwis and Canadians are running Britain
Men from the Commonwealth – and they are men – are taking over the British establishment’s positions of power
Outplacements
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
The little signs of a service being pared away
Last orders at the Death Café
An attempt to break the taboo on mortality with the aid of coffee and biscuits
Sussex vs shale
What happens when talk of ‘exploratory drilling’ comes to a pretty corner of West Sussex
Germany's war on Barbie
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?
Test Match Special is the sound of the English summer. Why are we letting it be vulgarised?
Notes on…Normandy
There are some, I know, who for whom Normandy means the three Cs — cider, cream and calvados. But if,…
Outplacements
He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalanceand I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He said,…
Outplacements
He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalanceand I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He said,…
Forecast failure: how the Met Office lost touch with reality
Why does the Met Office get it so wrong?
Wind
Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are…
James Delingpole’s letter to the royal baby
What you need to know about being born a Windsor
Another good private school wants to join the state system. Why is Labour trying to stop it?
When a good private school opens its doors to all, why isn’t Labour celebrating?
Burlesque is not as bad as stripping. It's far worse
A sense of irony doesn’t make stripping feminist. It just makes it worse to watch
Nicolas Roeg interview: ‘I hate the term “sex scene”’
At 85, the film director Nicolas Roeg is pleased to see the critics catching up with him
What the Arab world really wants
Middle East protest has its roots not in Islam but in frustrated enterprise
Notes on… Glorious Goodwood
His Grace the tenth Duke of Richmond gave my father the job of running his beloved racecourse, Goodwood, when I…
Wind
Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are…
Wind
Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are…
The new God squad: what Archbishop Welby and Pope Francis have in common
Evangelicals have taken charge in the Vatican and Lambeth Palace
The Colours of London
(after Yoshio Markino, 1911) Colours of women, a grey-veiled pink, a bloom Fading to yellow, stippled, dust-hung, flecked Soot startling…
The world’s media are waiting for Mandela to die. Here’s why he’s disappointing them
The past few weeks have been an agonising dress rehearsal for the great statesman’s death
Watch out France: Nicolas Sarkozy is back, and he wants revenge
The defeated president is ready to retake his party – and wreak his revenge on François Hollande
Philip Bobbitt on Machiavelli, Obama and David Cameron
Few of today’s statesmen, says Philip Bobbitt, deserve comparison with the ‘seriously ethical’ author of The Prince
