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Fight club: when book groups turn nasty
When book groups turn nasty
How the pumpkin hijacked Halloween
You see them everywhere in vast orange mounds: pumpkins, piles of pumpkins, large enough to be turned into a coach…
Why I’m paying my daughter to go to church
Why I’m bribing my daughter to get confirmed
Cop out: Boris’s battle to save the climate summit
Will COP26 actually achieve anything?
In Israel, there’s never an easy fix
From an Israeli army base on the border with Lebanon, I can see the village of Maroun al-Ras. An Iranian…
What’s really behind the net-zero zealotry of big businesses?
What’s really behind the net-zero zealotry of big businesses?
Why are we so afraid of nuclear power?
It’s time we conquered our fears over the safest power of all
The Tory blame game over COP26 has already started
Anxiety among Tory MPs is growing
My night in Béziers with Zemmour
Zemmour’s star power is undeniable
Plan Z: the rise of Éric Zemmour
France’s new insurgent, Éric Zemmour
Would you go to a naked dining club?
My evening at a naked dining club
The simple pleasures of sloe gin
The gin craze of recent years has reached a scale that would have horrified Hogarth. You can now buy strawberry,…
How Rome’s rubbish became a political problem
‘Excommunication,’ reads a stone plaque on the wall of the church of St Theodore in Rome, ‘and a fine of…
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
Why I left the Church of England: an interview with Michael Nazir-Ali
Michael Nazir-Ali on his decision to join the Catholic church
Why is it so hard to live without a mobile phone?
Why is it so hard to live without a mobile phone?
Wuhan clan: the price I paid for my lab leak exposé
The price I paid for my lab leak exposé
Baby doomers: why are couples putting the planet ahead of parenthood?
Why are so many people putting the planet before parenthood?
The joy of a cluttered museum
The joy of a cluttered museum
What makes a conker champion?
Last weekend, for the 54th time, hundreds of competitors met to compete for the title of world conker champion in…
Italy’s anti-Green Pass movement has a new figurehead
Italy’s anti-Green Pass movement has a new figurehead
Having a child is the grandest act of climate destruction
There’s no way I could bring children into this world
I’ve just watched Lebanon commit suicide – and it’s heartbreaking
What has happened to Lebanon is a tragedy
The problem with Boris going on Bake Off
Our plans for the Seychelles twice thwarted, we finally decide on Gozo, Malta. Afraid that the Insulate Britain brigade might…
Brexit has killed Thatcherism. And about time, too
Boris is returning conservatism to its roots
