Features

Meet the Tories’ Welsh Wizard: an interview with Stephen Crabb

18 July 2015 9:00 am

Stephen Crabb, the working-class Welsh Secretary with a fondness for Margaret Thatcher

Selling power: a Spitting Image Thatcher puppet

Which political souvenirs are worth hanging on to

18 July 2015 9:00 am

My first reaction on hearing of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013 was: ‘Great — now my autograph from her will…

Selling power: a Spitting Image Thatcher puppet

Political memorabilia

16 July 2015 1:00 pm

My first reaction on hearing of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013 was: ‘Great — now my autograph from her will…

Unions vs workers – this is David Cameron’s chance to strike back

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Trade unions have ceased to serve working people. It’s time to act against them

Love-lies-bleeding

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Of course the bride’s dog came to the wedding and was allotted a chair at the top table at which…

The hunting ban could be gone soon – but the hypocrisy will linger on

11 July 2015 9:00 am

With luck, the cruel, hypocritical ban could be gone by winter

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is greeted by Pope Francis during the Ordinary Public Consistory at St. Peter's Basilica in February (Photo: Franco Origlia/Getty)

Benedict XVI leaves Rome to deliver a coded message to his supporters

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Quietly, discreetly, the Pope Emeritus is offering a different vision to that of Pope Francis

Migrants warm up beside a campfire on the Macedonian-Greek border (Photo Robert Atanasovski/Getty)

Ali Baba and the 300 hostages: the kidnappers who prey on desperate migrants in Europe’s border badlands

11 July 2015 9:00 am

The kidnappers who prey on desperate migrants in Greece’s border badlands

My letter from Harper Lee

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Avoiding publicity doesn’t stop her being sharp-eyed, curious and impeccably well-mannered. I have the evidence

Susan Hill’s French notebook: My struggle to avoid local cuisine

11 July 2015 9:00 am

An overnight stop on the Ile de Ré taken between the St Malo ferry and the Quercy, where we always…

Tides of wealth: Polzeath beach

Would Betjeman recognise anything about today’s north Cornwall?

11 July 2015 9:00 am

In a documentary filmed at the end of his life, Sir John Betjeman, who lived in the village of Trebetherick…

Love-lies-bleeding

9 July 2015 1:00 pm

Of course the bride’s dog came to the wedding and was allotted a chair at the top table at which…

Tides of wealth: Polzeath beach

North Cornwall

9 July 2015 1:00 pm

In a documentary filmed at the end of his life, Sir John Betjeman, who lived in the village of Trebetherick…

Love-lies-bleeding

9 July 2015 1:00 pm

Of course the bride’s dog came to the wedding and was allotted a chair at the top table at which…

'We need a new word for crisis': the view from Athens

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Its people face an uncertain and frightening future

The Camp

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Near the dogleg turn of the lane down to the ponies’ field, skulking in summer among cow parsley and meadow…

Let's fight terror - by holidaying in gorgeous, welcoming Tunisia

4 July 2015 9:00 am

It needs – and deserves – British visitors more than ever

Osborne’s false prophet: why Jim O’Neill will never deliver a ‘northern powerhouse’

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Why Jim O’Neill isn’t fit to run the Northern Powerhouse

Hallelujah! The England cricket team is fun again

4 July 2015 9:00 am

At long last, the England cricket team have rediscovered their love of the game

If Putin comes, the Poles are waiting - a report from Nato's new frontline

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Nato’s beefed-up military exercises are impressive – and ominous

The wonderful, vanishing world of the handwritten letter

4 July 2015 9:00 am

In praise of the old-fashioned letter-writer

First he brought limp salad, and now it’s drizzling

The pitfalls of picnics (and how to avoid them)

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Strange, isn’t it, that despite having such famously terrible weather, we Brits are so fond of a picnic. It’s something…

The Camp

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Near the dogleg turn of the lane down to the ponies’ field, skulking in summer among cow parsley and meadow…

First he brought limp salad, and now it’s drizzling

Picnics

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Strange, isn’t it, that despite having such famously terrible weather, we Brits are so fond of a picnic. It’s something…

The Camp

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Near the dogleg turn of the lane down to the ponies’ field, skulking in summer among cow parsley and meadow…