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Divided states
Once again, Trump has shown how well he understands America
The ethics of lockdown
Is the harm it causes justified?
Enter Putin
How Russia will try to influence what happens next
A long winter
The ‘worst-case scenario’ for Covid
Bog bodies
Some believe that All Hallows’ Eve is adopted from a much older Celtic holiday, Samhain, that marked the change from…
Letter from Bangkok
Three years ago I sat down to write a novel set in my adopted home city. Placing its claustrophobic action…
Election notebook
Earlier this summer left-wing activists announced a ‘semi-autonomous zone’ in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. Denuded of law enforcement…
Wales of grief
My homeland is quite rightly a laughing stock
Cinema paradiso
Going to the movies was a religious experience
‘I lied for Trump, but that doesn’t make me a liar’
Michael Cohen on the cult of The Donald
Erdogan’s game
Why Turkey is severing its links with the West
The science factor
Churchill’s wartime passion
Solitary drinking
Thanks to a combination of night-time curfews, social-distancing rules, pubs closing, restaurants failing, the ‘rule of six’ and compulsory mask-wearing,…
‘If I don’t say this, who will?’
Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch on the ‘poison’ of identity politics
No excuse
Covid has become a get-out clause for shoddy service
Advantage Xi
Covid has accelerated China’s rise
Broken records
Restrictions on the National Archives are a disaster for historians
Europe’s long Covid
Are we looking at a W-shaped recovery?
Fuming
London’s war on motorists isn’t helping anybody
An inevitable failure
NHS Test and Trace was doomed from the start
Signs of the times
The etiquette of ending an email
Riding the wave
Students who catch Covid may be saving lives by building up immunity
Winkles
For the first time in 30-odd years, many Brits have started eating winkles again. Unable to holiday abroad this summer,…
Out together
Only a ‘good’ Brexit can stop Scottish independence
The default president
Americans don’t seem to care that Biden is past it – they want Trump gone
