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Notes on… Eastern Germany
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, I’ve been pottering around eastern Germany, where my father’s family came from, and…
The return of God: atheism's crisis of faith
Dawkins and Grayling et al seem to have inspired a Christian fightback
Would human life be sacred in an atheist world?
Can human life be sacred in a post-Christian world?
Don't call him an oligarch - meeting Dmitry Firtash
A rare interview with billionaire Ukrainian power broker Dmitry Firtash
As a doctor, I’d rather have HIV than diabetes
In the West, the deadliest thing about HIV may now be the stigma
The mathematical revolution behind ‘the greatest picture in the world’
The Indian inspiration with which Piero della Francesca created ‘the greatest picture in the world’
Where it's all kicking off in Athens nightlife
Where in the developed world can you ride a moped, minus helmet, at 2 a.m. under the noses of weary…
Preset Image Valentine
Intimacy these days discomforts. More our style is the park or the pub, or three-minded chess with young Kasparov. A…
Preset Image Valentine
Intimacy these days discomforts. More our style is the park or the pub, or three-minded chess with young Kasparov. A…
Shakespeare invented Britain. Now he can save it
Shakespeare defined our united national culture – and now he can help save it
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
Scots and English are the same people, with different accents. Why pretend otherwise?
The Scots and the English have far more in common than the SNP likes to admit
How fascist is Ukraine's Svoboda?
Encounters with the rightward edge of Ukraine’s new government
Why can’t country views be protected from wind turbines?
City skylines are protected from careless building. Why should country views be different?
The summer of love
I spent it skipping about in tights, imagining women wanted me
Governments have failed — mayors are the future
The power to effect real change may lie with dynamic city halls rather than ossified national governments
Book clubs
Everyone knows somebody who belongs to a book club. From informal gatherings of bookish friends in living rooms and cafés…
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
We have a new climate change consensus — and it's good news everyone
Adapting to climate change is far more effective than trying to stop it
A Mixed Ability Room
the english foxhound likes to bay his enemy is the wind instead of grief he feels relief at every innovative…
How green policies hurt the poor
How green policies hit the poorest hardest
We've got gay rights, now let's have gay responsibility
Why should our marriages demand less than straight ones?
Before you talk about 'Lessons from Rwanda', read this
Twenty years ago, I was a witness to the Rwandan genocide. Those who speak of lessons from it are deluded
Michael Lewis vs Wall Street's new predators
How the US stock market became ‘a war of robots’
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