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Hollywood Notebook
Recovering from a bad cold and bored to tears by the fare on television, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu (it’s shocking…
The kindness of strangers
Having Parkinson’s has shown me a different side of society
Bread boards
It’s not known which inspired Victorian first had the idea to take a chopping block and carve it into a…
Europe’s shrinking centre
What happens when times change, but parties don’t?
Viral hit
How prepared is the UK for a pandemic?
The Shia Krays
The whole of Iraq is being held to ransom
Tart gallery
The rise of the museum café
Korea high
Seoul’s culture has become a global phenomenon
A dish served cold
Is the pangolin having its revenge?
Coming up roses
Will Brexit make Valentine’s Day less expensive?
Chesterton’s homes
It’s a quiet Wednesday afternoon in Britain’s most expensive market town, and there’s a sense of foreboding in the air.…
Jail broken
Our prisons are fuelling radicalism, not fighting it
Inside story
What I saw as prisons minister
Iowa omnishambles
The Democrats have gifted Trump his best week since taking office
Howling Gaels
On the Scottish literary giants who stoked the fires of Anglophobia
Was the bombing of Dresden a war crime?
A conversation between Sinclair McKay and A.N. Wilson
Gospel truth
The Bible’s message on same-sex relationships is open to dispute
Voice in the wilderness
Our worship of the ‘wild’ has gone too far
Monopoly
I’ve been playing a lot of Monopoly recently. My son got his first grown-up set for Christmas and, even after…
How it all went right
The great Brexit divide seems to have mended since the election
Cool it on the triumphalism
Remainers’ anger has subsided, but this is an uneasy peace
Disease control, Chinese-style
The handling of the coronavirus shows a one-party state in action
Risky business
Britain needs to rediscover trial and error, serendipity and speed
It’s your funeral
The rise of ‘coffin clubs’
The long goodbye
We Germans have been in denial about Brexit
