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Mrs Badgery

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…

Mussolini wanted it straightened

Beyond the Leaning Tower: the wonders of Pisa

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Say ‘Pisa’ and everyone thinks of the Leaning Tower. Fair enough; it’s a curiosity, and the tourist board must be…

A poetic and jargon-free textbook on theoretical physics is a surprise Christmas bestseller

12 December 2015 9:00 am

How a book on relativity and quantum theory became a surprise hit

Proof and Belief

12 December 2015 9:00 am

On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…

Proof and Belief

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…

Mrs Badgery

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…

Proof and Belief

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…

Illustrated by Carolyn Gowdy

Mrs Badgery

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…

Silent strongman Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Russia’s military aggression

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Putin’s military aggression

An age of climate realism is upon us

5 December 2015 9:00 am

The age of climate realism is upon us

Conservative youth politics is noxious, but pitiful

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Why are so many Conservative activists so noxious?

The climate change agenda is a conspiracy against the poor

5 December 2015 9:00 am

In trying to protect ‘our grandchildren’ from climate change, politicians are hurting the poor. They shouldn’t

What do you do when there’s drunken aggro after closing time? Send in the street pastors

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Heroic volunteers are bringing down crime in cities across Britain

Could I have prevented a Kray murder?

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Could I have prevented a Kray murder?

Life inside Jeremy Corbyn’s crazy party

5 December 2015 9:00 am

What life is like inside the Labour party right now

Will Father Christmas bring that drum kit?

Tips from Just William on making a Christmas list

5 December 2015 9:00 am

William Brown had the right idea about Christmas lists. Under the heading ‘Things I Want for Christmas’, he requests: a…

Coffee with Annie

5 December 2015 9:00 am

I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…

Coffee with Annie

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…

Coffee with Annie

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…

The pretend war: why bombing Isil won't solve the problem

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Britain, France and America are in a protracted fight against Islamic radicalism. Pity our leaders have no idea how to win it

Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and David Cameron attend a meeting during the G20 Summit in Antalya, on November 16, 2015 (Photo: Getty)

How to defeat Isis, by a retired British commander

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Military action against Isis needs a coherent strategy, says a former senior commander in the British army

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Worry less about what to call Isis, and more about how to fight them

28 November 2015 9:00 am

We should worry less about what to call Isis, and more about how to fight them

What Muslims think

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Polls suggesting that they sympathise with terrorists are misleading

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In defence of Jeremy Corbyn

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The Labour leader’s line on Syria is more principled and more forward-looking than the Prime Minister’s

‘I was tossed out of the tribe’: climate scientist Judith Curry interviewed

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Meet Professor Judith Curry, the sceptical climate scientist rarely quoted in Britain’s media