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Is the way our hospitals treat old people down to underfunding – or organised neglect?
The reality for elderly patients in NHS hospitals
The Schumacher effect: ski helmets and the grim power of celebrity
For a melancholy example of the power of celebrity, head to the Alps. Since Michael Schumacher’s accident last December in…
The cult of 'mindfulness'
Separating meditation from faith might not be as harmless as it seems
The Seabirds
Out on the crumbling landscape’s farthest edge, Their winter journey starts, and while I know Some names, I can’t recall…
Why I’ve joined Lebanon’s exodus
The long shadow of the Islamic State means that many Christians are packing up and leaving Lebanon
Rand Paul is like Nigel Farage – except he might win
Rand Paul combines a dull, reassuring manner with a Ukip-like insurgent appeal. It could take him to the presidency
Jonathan Sacks on religion, politics and the civil war that Islam needs
Former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the return of religion to public life and the civil war that Islam needs
The fightback against wackiness starts here
Forced, studenty wackiness has taken over our culture. It’s time to take a stand
The myth of the White Widow
Samantha Lewthwaite almost certainly isn’t as monstrous as the papers say. And she definitely isn’t as important
Why Gibraltar needs its hunt back
The British overseas territory of Gibraltar, or, as some would have it, the wart on the bottom of the Iberian…
The Seabirds
Out on the crumbling landscape’s farthest edge, Their winter journey starts, and while I know Some names, I can’t recall…
The Seabirds
Out on the crumbling landscape’s farthest edge, Their winter journey starts, and while I know Some names, I can’t recall…
Italy’s in terminal decline, and no one has the guts to stop it
Italy is in terminal decline
Winter Words
Calendar pages: one scrumpled day dies in a garden spun to fools’ gold, where wind mews over twigs and bones…
How Cameron could make the EU a winning issue (and why he won’t)
I don’t think the PM will really campaign for an EU exit. But he still has the best chance of getting one
It’s time to shave that beard: the decade of the hipster is over
Take heart: the age of the stupid beard is coming to an end
Escape from Omnishambleshire: the case for the old county boundaries
If you want real local identity to thrive in England, put the old county boundaries back on the map
Bourbon from Bush, envy from Nixon... and running into Herbert Hoover: encounters with eight presidents
Encounters with leaders of the free world – as a journalist, as a friend, and as a boy running in the hallway
Why I'll never want to escape Portmeirion
My husband and I stay for a week most summers in Portmeirion, the strangest and loveliest ‘village’ in the world.…
Winter Words
Calendar pages: one scrumpled day dies in a garden spun to fools’ gold, where wind mews over twigs and bones…
Winter Words
Calendar pages: one scrumpled day dies in a garden spun to fools’ gold, where wind mews over twigs and bones…
How to fix the NHS: a doctor's prescription
A doctor’s prescription
Meet the bloated, useless General Medical Council
Its licensing system has turned doctors into full-time form-fillers
Monsieur Clermont
That August, in La France Profonde, the frelons were out in force, honey-gold cruisers of late summer air, their poigniards…
Europe will reconcile with Russia, and soon. It can’t afford not to
The West will have to drop sanctions on Russia – or face another global economic crash
