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My mother's passport to the Antibes good life
My mother always said she wanted to ‘die tidy’. But I never imagined she would file everything away quite so…
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
Old Labour, New Danger
Ed Miliband is set to unleash a radical, Old Labour political agenda
Meet Team Miliband
A snapshot of Ed’s political pack
Clinton vs Bush — again
American politics looks increasingly like an oligarchy
Subterranea is sexy
The strange fascination of tunnels and bunkers
A Protestant country is a free country
A Protestant country is a free country
Notes from Damascus
As I looked out of the window of my hotel bedroom, studying the view of central Damascus, the mobile phone…
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
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