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In defence of binge drinking
The occasional alcoholic blowout is much to be preferred to steady, everyday drinking
Notes on…Walking in the Auvergne
The homicidal sheepdog that launched itself at me from behind a grassy hillock, had the look of a demented hearth…
The wrong way to fix the NHS
A senior surgeon says Jeremy Hunt’s NHS reforms will do more harm than good
Gibraltar isn't the world's weirdest border
Gibraltar is just one geographical oddity in a world full of them
How new food rules could ruin restaurants
Stricter food rules won’t make you any safer – but they could ruin many small restaurants
Putin’s own Cold War
Russia is ever more hostile to the US. But the US no longer needs to care
Love-making in Water
Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold. And they can even dive and mate at…
Why interns don’t deserve pay
The ‘intern justice’ movement is preposterous – and damaging
Joan Collins’s notebook: Fighting libel and rude houseguests
I recently had to spend a great deal of time attempting to clear my name from a ludicrous assertion in…
Anne Boleyn’s last secret
Why was the queen executed with a sword, rather than an axe?
Notes on….Walking in the Scottish Highlands
The simplest and best way to get straight to the heart of the Highlands from London is by sleeper. Board…
Love-making in Water
Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold. And they can even dive and mate at…
Love-making in Water
Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold. And they can even dive and mate at…
You’re never really on holiday with a smartphone
Why not give your smartphone a holiday?
Syria’s war in miniature: meeting the Christians driven out of Qusayr
Events in one Syrian town cast light on the nation’s strife
Sorry – the Vikings really were that bad
Forget that guff about peaceful farmers with an interest in travel
Welcome to Big Venice: How London became a tourist-trap city
London is at risk of becoming a tourist trap full of second homes
Attack of the nudist lawyers
How a little bird saved my favourite beach
Why Doctor Who is secretly Tony Benn
Through the ages, the Time Lord has been a political weathervane
The next Tory leadership battle is Boris Johnson vs Theresa May – and it’s already started
The Mayor of London and the Home Secretary are squaring up for the next Tory leadership battle
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Why soon we’ll all be vegetarian
Sooner than you think, all our burgers may be grown in a lab
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
Bats vs people
They are a protected species – we’re not
A secret sperm donor service in post-first world war London
The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war
