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Facebook has a special vomiting emoji for the corrupt leaders of Brazil

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Ipanema, Brazil Another Sunday night, yet another episode of Game of Thrones drowned out by pot-banging and angry folk yelling…

A top criminal lawyer’s guide to cocaine

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Drug-taking is less glamorous when you know how the trade really works

‘His operas offer a straightforward experience’

Verdi’s works are more entertainment than art

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Verdi has a peculiar if not unique place in the pantheon of great composers. If you love classical music at…

To a Turkish president

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankera Till he sowed his wild oats With the…

‘His operas offer a straightforward experience’

Verdi

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Verdi has a peculiar if not unique place in the pantheon of great composers. If you love classical music at…

To a Turkish president

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankera Till he sowed his wild oats With the…

Boris Johnson: Yes, I'd debate Cameron. I'd be a wimp if I didn't

14 May 2016 9:00 am

The former mayor of London makes his case for Brexit

Arrest

14 May 2016 9:00 am

The sun always grabs us by surprise its yolky wash on a pub wall the clumsy spill round the black…

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Only one man can heal Donald Trump’s rift with the neocons

14 May 2016 9:00 am

His choice of running mate could heal the rift with the neocons

The internet’s war on free speech

14 May 2016 9:00 am

The web was meant to empower us all. Right now, it’s empowering censors

British universities are whipping up a mad boom that’s bound to go bust

14 May 2016 9:00 am

British higher education is in a boom that’s bound to go bust

Confess your guilty displeasures

14 May 2016 9:00 am

It is now entirely cool to adore the uncool. But what about the things we can’t admit to not enjoying?

The slow (and ignominious) death of the British funeral

14 May 2016 9:00 am

I mourn for the traditional ceremony

The demise of bullfighting has been predicted for 100 years, yet it lives on

Is bullfighting on its last gasp?

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Looking at the programme for the feria of San Isidro in Madrid this month (bullfights are being held on 31…

Arrest

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

The sun always grabs us by surprise its yolky wash on a pub wall the clumsy spill round the black…

The demise of bullfighting has been predicted for 100 years, yet it lives on

Bullfighting

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

Looking at the programme for the feria of San Isidro in Madrid this month (bullfights are being held on 31…

Arrest

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

The sun always grabs us by surprise its yolky wash on a pub wall the clumsy spill round the black…

How Recep Erdogan became the most powerful man in Europe

7 May 2016 9:00 am

President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them

Cycling in Lycra is bad for the soul

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Cycling in funny clothes is bad for the soul

What Labour needs now is a takeover by real left-wing radicals

7 May 2016 9:00 am

The party needs real radicalism – it is in the hands of an ugly simulacrum

Zac Goldsmith’s London campaign was a toe-curling embarrassment

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Zac Goldsmith’s London campaign was an embarrassment

Making friends with the axeman next door

7 May 2016 9:00 am

What happened when I tried American neighbourliness in London

Let’s vote ‘in’ to renew the EU, says Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor

7 May 2016 9:00 am

There is more to the idea of Europe than narrow economic considerations. The Remain side needs to say so

Gentlest and sweetest of dogs

Beautiful, wilful, never dull: in praise of Clumber spaniels

7 May 2016 9:00 am

For the first time in more than 30 years we have no Clumber spaniel. We have had five: Henry, Judith,…

It’s not just Donald Trump, the right is tearing itself apart everywhere

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown