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Tina
Dearest, I’d love to have your Tina to stay —what are aunts for? — but I’m not sure if it…
Six Nations rugby
Back in 1882, exactly 100 years before I was born, the Four Nations rugby competition was formed. It was originally…
Tina
Dearest, I’d love to have your Tina to stay —what are aunts for? — but I’m not sure if it…
Fighting over the crumbs
Eurosceptics could hardly have asked for more favourable conditions for a referendum. After barely surviving a financial crisis, the European…
Breaking
Was everybody scared? Mum was, certainly. Slip-clinging hold, respectability. World-lost, he didn’t care, Or didn’t cotton on. Inexplicably, He…
The bad book
The decline of the Church of England has been one of the most astonishing trends in modern Britain. The pews…
Hollande’s own emergency
His response to the Paris terror attacks has left the French president increasingly isolated and unpopular
Inside the new Navy
Life on board a warship in the era of defence cuts
A lesson in self-censorship
Surviving as a Tory teacher means keeping quiet
Death on the NHS
Ten years ago, the National Health Service eased my father’s final days. My mother, this year, was not so lucky
Fear of the baby-snatchers
Why many mothers with post-natal depression now dread a visit from social services
South Africa
There are plenty of places to fly to for winter sun, but only one place that offers five-star hotels for…
Breaking
Was everybody scared? Mum was, certainly. Slip-clinging hold, respectability. World-lost, he didn’t care, Or didn’t cotton on. Inexplicably, He…
Breaking
Was everybody scared? Mum was, certainly. Slip-clinging hold, respectability. World-lost, he didn’t care, Or didn’t cotton on. Inexplicably, He…
South Africa
There are plenty of places to fly to for winter sun, but only one place that offers five-star hotels for…
In defence of gender
Children are not all ‘gender fluid’. It’s dangerous and wrong to try to persuade them that they are
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
Turkey’s climate of fear
President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds
Calling the shots
Amid the hunters, urban cowboys and trigger-happy heroes at the world’s biggest gun show
No, women can’t have it all
Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice
Game over
If sport loses the public’s faith – and it’s starting to – then all its power and glory will fade
South Georgia Notebook
The terrible news that Henry Worsley had died just 30 miles short of crossing the Antarctic continent unsupported reached me…
The Venice Accademia
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
The Venice Accademia
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
