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The Imagined Day
The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…
How to fight Europe’s demons of deflation
The new fear haunting Europe
London’s real Olympic legacy: paying to build the stadium twice
Giving London’s Olympic stadium a ‘legacy’ is proving to be a very costly business
For some left-wing men, the misogyny of the Islamic State is part of the appeal
For some left-wing men, the misogyny of the Islamic State is part of the appeal
How America’s right wing is becoming a lot more like Britain’s
America’s right wing is becoming a lot more like Britain’s
Life is full of little endings. We should pay them more attention
Life is full of little endings. We should pay them more attention
Steve Jobs’s button phobia has shaped the modern world
An irrational fear that has reshaped the technological world
A miracle: French hotels actually like dogs
The first time I checked in to a French hotel with a golden retriever — his name was Gregory, predecessor…
The Imagined Day
The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…
The Imagined Day
The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…
It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history
Thanks to globalisation, ‘progressive’ politicians have nowhere to turn
There’s only one Alan Johnson (that's why Labour's in such trouble)
Labour voters feel hope and despair; hope, because the Tories are doing no better than we, and despair, for that…
Revealed: the marriage gap between Britain's rich and poor
Marriage has emerged as a serious – and perhaps surprising – social divide
How Islamic State commanders squeeze their hostages for every penny
Islamic State commanders know exactly how to extract the greatest possible profit from their hostages. Some care about little else
The National Trust is spoiling beautiful places in the name of people who’ll never visit them
Why do we ruin beautiful places to make them appeal to those who’ll never visit anyway?
Hug a hoodie: can there really be a kinder, gentler Ku Klux Klan?
The Ku Klux Klan is trying to rebrand
The subversive wonders of Kilkenomics – where economics meets stand-up
‘What is a Minsky moment, anyway?’ asks Gerry Stembridge, an Irish satirist. ‘I’ve been reading about them in the papers…
Malta's military marvels
Fate occasionally leads travellers to places they had never planned to visit. Into this category, for me, fell Malta. I…
The shameful truth: Britain lets in far too few refugees
Britain’s appalling record on refugees is a moral failure, and national disgrace
To make asylum work, we’ll have to talk frankly
It is the easiest thing in the world to say who should come to Britain and why. But if there…
The real winner at the US mid-terms: Hillary Clinton
Taking control of both houses of Congress may hand the presidency to Hillary Clinton in 2016
What Angela Merkel really wants (it's not good news for Dave)
The German Chancellor has a lot in common with David Cameron – which is why she can’t afford to help him very much
Watch out Pope Francis: the Catholic civil war has begun
Uncertainty over how much reform Pope Francis wants is splitting his church into factions
Ukip’s Patrick O’Flynn on the ‘genius’ Nigel Farage and why Douglas Carswell’s votes won’t set party policy
Patrick O’Flynn praises ‘genius’ Nigel Farage, and puts Douglas Carswell in his place
How did Britain ever have unarmed criminals?
Once, both police and criminals in Britain routinely did without guns. How did that happen? And why did it change?
