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Kindles will kill off the bookish loner (thank God)
Kindle highlights turn the lonely pleasures of reading into a communal event
How the NHS fails new mothers on breast-feeding
Why isn’t there a proper service to show new nursing mothers how to feed their babies?
Salzburg – more than just a ridiculously pretty place
Salzburg is so ridiculously pretty, it’s sometimes hard to take it seriously. Standing on the ramparts of its knights-in-armour castle,…
Memory
While in the mirror I’m an aging face More or less the same day after day, In the mind’s darker…
Memory
While in the mirror I’m an aging face More or less the same day after day, In the mind’s darker…
France's political system is crumbling. What's coming next looks scary
The desperate state of its politics seems to signal the end of the Republic
A Russian occupation and a veterans' revolt – it's D-Day all over again
The phrase ‘ring of steel’ hardly begins to describe the operation here in Calvados country as we await the 70th…
Witness to a stoning
Islam knows it is under siege – and the fear makes it more brutal
Why Weight Watchers doesn’t deserve taxpayers’ money
Why slimming clubs don’t deserve public money
‘Papa told us everything’: Winston Churchill and the remarkable Mary Soames
Memories of Mary Soames, Churchill’s remarkable daughter
If you think you understand what Putin’s doing in Ukraine, you’re not paying enough attention
Fake menace and real concessions, fake concessions and real menace… what’s behind the curtain of Putin’s grandiose foreign policy?
The wonders of Wexford
I might have had chance to visit the famed Wexford Opera Festival when I was walking out with Bernard Levin…
Ukip aren’t going away – and David Cameron has no idea what to do
Cameron must move from badmouthing Ukip to addressing the fears of its voters
Approaching Little Big Horn
All spring the scattered bands gathered, the People, the Human Beings, all those like themselves on this earth — Lakota…
The revolution the West needs (and won't get)
The West must wake up and reform, or face decline
Why Ken Loach hasn’t made a decent film since Kes
He hasn’t made anything worth watching since Kes
Viktor Yanukovych’s palace is full of tasteless treasures – and London auction-house tags
Quite a few of the former president Yanukovych’s ‘treasures’ seem to carry tags from London auctioneers
Meet Alex Salmond’s secret weapon: the England football team
Nothing makes Scots feel more Scottish than England playing in a World Cup
Jonathan Dimbleby’s notebook: In defence of Chris Patten
I usually spend most of the week at home in South Devon in front of my computer. But for the…
Humans hunger for the sacred. Why can’t the new atheists understand that?
Atheists are blind to a fundamental human need
If we have to let generals run Egypt, must we pay for them, too?
America has let Egypt’s old military oligarchs take hold again. Must it carry on paying for them, too?
The only place I feel comfortable in my bathrobe
I know James Bond is partial to strutting around not-quite-enveloped in a dressing gown, but whether your robe is monogrammed…
Approaching Little Big Horn
All spring the scattered bands gathered, the People, the Human Beings, all those like themselves on this earth — Lakota…
Approaching Little Big Horn
All spring the scattered bands gathered, the People, the Human Beings, all those like themselves on this earth — Lakota…
How Nigel Farage gave British democracy back to the voters
Whatever the election results, Nigel Farage’s insurgency has changed British politics for the better
