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Chump or champ? Why Ben Wallace could be the next PM

7 May 2022 9:00 am

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is on manoeuvres

‘Whitehall was horrified by Brexit’: an interview with Australia’s departing high commissioner

7 May 2022 9:00 am

Australia’s departing high commissioner on what really happened in the trade talks

The strange return of the Philippines’ brutal Marcos dynasty

7 May 2022 9:00 am

The ex-dictator’s son is clear favourite in the Philippine elections

Getting a fringe is always a cry for help

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Fringes have in recent years been considered attractive – Bettie Page, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Birkin, Kate Moss – so it…

Nadine Dorries: My vision for the BBC

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Nadine Dorries on online safety, the BBC and taking risks

Why Christie’s is wrong to cancel Eric Gill

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Why Christie’s is wrong to cancel Eric Gill

Can Mélenchon unite the French left?

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Can Mélenchon unite the French left?

How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor

30 April 2022 9:00 am

How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor

Refugee status: the social cachet of taking in Ukrainians

30 April 2022 9:00 am

The social cachet of taking in Ukrainians

Can Elon Musk take on the tech censors?

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Is Elon Musk a match for the tech censors?

In defence of staring

30 April 2022 9:00 am

The criminalisation of people-watching

Fractured: can the West fix itself?

30 April 2022 9:00 am

So why be ashamed of ourselves?

The Shanghai lockdown is testing the limits of the CCP’s control

23 April 2022 9:00 am

China’s lockdown protestors cannot be silenced

Thumbs up: why hitchhiking is the best way to travel

23 April 2022 9:00 am

When I first saw Vitaly I thought he was drunk. I was standing outside a petrol station near Fulda, in…

Narcissist vs fantasist: France’s gruesome choice

23 April 2022 9:00 am

France faces a gruesome choice

Workshy Whitehall: why can’t the PM get his civil servants back to work?

23 April 2022 9:00 am

Too few civil servants are returning to the office

How I finally learned to love my eco-home

23 April 2022 9:00 am

How I finally learned to love my eco-home

Why more and more Russians are backing the war

23 April 2022 9:00 am

Why Russian support for the war will keep growing

Hotel Rwanda: why does Kagame want to take in Britain’s asylum seekers?

23 April 2022 9:00 am

Why is Paul Kagame agreeing to accommodate Britain’s asylum seekers?

Can you tell which of these artworks was created by a computer?

23 April 2022 9:00 am

Will AI change painting — or destroy it?

The war has helped to resurrect Poland’s Catholic church

16 April 2022 9:00 am

The war has helped to resurrect Poland’s Catholic church

Why violets come into their own at Easter

16 April 2022 9:00 am

The English Rock Garden, the magnum opus of the great gardening writer, horticulturist and plant collector Reginald Farrer, is an…

I can feel my heart hardening as the war goes on

16 April 2022 9:00 am

Palm Sunday in Perugia. Umbrians were scuttling around with twigs and leaves, but I was in town to celebrate another…