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Why I love undertakers
By looking after the dead, funeral directors allow the living to love and mourn them
We should celebrate Magna Carta by abolishing the European Arrest Warrant
The European Arrest Warrant is incompatible with our tradition of justice
How the French won Waterloo (or think they did)
The French would still prefer to think of Napoleon’s last defeat as a moral victory
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Treat the NHS as a religion, and you give it the right to run your life
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, keep fit, die young
The big fat myths of our ‘obesity epidemic’
Obesity isn’t soaring, and it doesn’t strain the NHS
The Charles Kennedy I knew, by Danny Alexander
Charles Kennedy remembered
Why Saudi Arabia is kicking back against the USA
Why America’s once-cautious ally suddenly looks so skittish
Crazy runs for president don’t look so mad when you see what happens next
Every American election needs laughably improbable candidates
How come our cash-strapped universities can afford so many administrators?
At Oxford and elsewhere, university administration is out of control
Why I joined the smiley-face cult
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
How to buy a father’s day present (if you must)
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
Father’s Day
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
Mercenaries could transform the fight against Isis – if we let them
Private military contractors have done wonders against Boko Haram. They could against Isis, too
Iraq may not have the will to survive – and that’s not even the biggest problem
Isis have it. Who else?
Why is Len McCluskey paying Carter-Ruck to threaten me?
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
‘The problem isn’t that we’ve been slaves to free markets’: Joseph Stiglitz interview
Joseph Stiglitz, the left’s favourite economist,on making the free market work
A piece of primeval England reborn in Sussex
A piece of ancient England is being reborn around a castle in Sussex
Why Viktor Orban could be David Cameron’s new best friend
Hungary’s Viktor Orban could be the PM’s most influential ally in EU renegotiations. So what does he want – and what can he get?
You don’t have to be super-rich to enjoy St Moritz in summer
Here’s a tip: when travelling to St Moritz, it’s best not to mention the name of your final destination to…