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Let Putin have Crimea – and it will destroy him
Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president
The equal pay bomb that could wipe out public sector jobs
Birmingham’s £1 billion equal-value pay claim could make public-sector employment a thing of the past
The right way to see Madrid
I got Madrid utterly wrong for quite a long time. It’s a lovely city to walk in, and I thought…
How to buy your way into the British establishment
What money can buy in the modern British establishment
A Short Attachment
I was in love for a whole week after Episode One: Your voice so tender, so knowledgeable, your slender hands…
Putin is making the West's Cold Warriors look like fools
Russia is making the West look posturing, weak and divided
Is Hamas finally losing its grip on Gaza?
The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans
The joy of less sex
I used to think nothing would ever be more important. I was wrong
I don’t want to rate the restaurant. I want to rate the date
Everyone’s a critic, but that doesn’t mean we want to fill in a survey every time we buy a meal
Why working class grandparents are better than middle class ones
When I told a friend that my nine-year-old son was staying with his grandparents for the whole week of the…
When I pick the right share, I shout about it. And here’s what I do when I get it wrong...
When I get it right, I shout about it. And when I get it wrong? Well, just between us…
The bull market is five years old. Does that mean it’s nearly over?
In London and New York, share prices have risen for five years running. So is it time to sell?
How to tell a tech bubble from a tech revolution
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
I never thought I'd write about wallpaper. But I'd never seen wallpaper like Marthe Armitage's
Every night, while my husband reads by screen-light, my mind runs like an invisible rat two miles north to the…
A Short Attachment
I was in love for a whole week after Episode One: Your voice so tender, so knowledgeable, your slender hands…
A Short Attachment
I was in love for a whole week after Episode One: Your voice so tender, so knowledgeable, your slender hands…
I always defended Michael Gove. Then I met him
Michael Gove inspires irrational hatred among my fellow children’s authors. After interviewing him, I can finally see why
Lapwing
Lapwing leans against the wind, First hint of changing season Come to turn the soil to stone And bring the…
Teacher training’s war on science
There’s an increasing amount of evidence about how we learn. But you won’t hear about it at teacher training college
Schools need freeing from the right as well as the left
How politicians wreck education
Israelis don’t care that we hate them. But they’d like to know why
Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them
The battle against the dog police
Feral bureaucrats are banning dogs from places they’ve been walked for generations. But now owners are fighting back
Crimean notebook: ‘They’ll have to break all my bones to make me a Russian citizen’
Vladimir Putin still swears that there are no Russian troops in Crimea, so their mission is to say as little…
Paris
No city really multitasks like Paris, shorthand for romance, culture, fashion, gastronomy and the kind of street life you find…
Lapwing
Lapwing leans against the wind, First hint of changing season Come to turn the soil to stone And bring the…
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