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The small NHS failings that let down patients like my mother
The NHS is letting down patients in small, crucial ways
Is technology killing nostalgia?
Making memories is different in the digital age
‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’: Rishi Sunak talks to Charles Moore
As the leadership contest hots up, Charles Moore and Rishi Sunak sit down for a chat
The toxic cult of the superhero
Why this mad insistence that everyone has special powers?
What’s behind Africa’s love affair with country music?
What’s behind Africa’s love affair with country music?
My debt to Boris Johnson
Back in 1997 when I was narked on by a fellow journalist (Simon Walters, currently of the Times, then of…
The Singapore model: lessons for the new PM from Lee Kwan Yew
What the new PM could learn from Lee Kwan Yew
Last ones standing: the leadership finalists on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
The leadership candidates on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
Trump’s return: is the Bad Orange Man on his way back to the White House?
Is he about to stage his comeback?
Where does a mother’s history end and a daughter’s begin?
Where does a mother’s history end and a daughter’s begin?
The death of bad-taste humour
The death of bad-taste humour
Hornets
There’s surely not a more despised creature in Britain than the hornet. They have long been viewed as yellow jacketed…
Home remedies are good for us – and the NHS
Home remedies are good for us — and the NHS
Blue murder: the knives are out in the Tory leadership fight
To judge from their campaigns, the leadership contenders are all out of ideas
The lost art of letterheads
One of the pleasures of the letters from unhappy ministers to the Prime Minister last week (though not, presumably, for…
How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead
How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead
The troubling rise of ‘apostrophe laws’
The problem with ‘apostrophe laws’
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Liz Truss on taking on Rishi and what she'd do in No. 10
Liz Truss on Brexit, internet censorship — and what she’d do in No. 10
Why Rishi Sunak quit
Why Rishi Sunak quit
After Boris: the leadership contest has begun
Who are the Tories lining up to replace Boris?
Why aren’t mistresses a secret any more?
When did mistresses forget the art of secrecy?
An existential war: even wealthy émigrés are prepared to fight for Russia
Even wealthy émigrés are prepared to fight for Russia
The twists and turns of ‘desire paths’
Pause in a park or field in summer and look out across the grass and you’ll see a multitude of…
Runaway inflation is proving costly for Turkey’s oil-wrestlers
Runaway inflation is proving costly for Turkey’s oil wrestlers
