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What’s wrong with Hillary
A Trump vs Clinton tussle for the US presidency is now likely. She can’t be that bad . . . can she?
What I got right
And what the Labour party is now getting wrong
Australian Notebook
Margaret River, Western Australia I’m here for a food festival, and to help along my autobiography. The Blonde had cashed…
‘All he did done perfectly’
In memory of my Irish hunter Tommy, who died last month
Afghanistan’s new agony
So many lives lost, a trillion dollars spent, yet the Taleban is resurgent
Christmas Notebook
As I strolled through the aisles in a large department store, I almost choked when I read a large display…
The year of the cad
From Lord Sewel to – let’s not be sexist – Sally Bercow, there’s life in the old rogue yet
London Notebook
I’ve spent much of the autumn and winter shooting my new TV series for BBC1. New Blood looks at the…
Notebook
This time last year I was running around excitedly telling all my friends that I had an African president in…
Seasonal advice from the great and the good
Clare Balding I love a good walk on Boxing Day followed by watching the racing at Kempton. Avoid the internet.…
Would you believe it? A selection of ancient faiths ripe for revival
After the success of Stoicism, more ancient faiths are ripe for revival
My surreal Christmas in hospital with a dangerously ill child
My surreal Christmas in hospital with a dangerously ill child
Ed Balls’ Christmas Day starter recipe
Cooking the Christmas dinner is my job in our house. And I love it. All those courses and juggling of…
Mrs Badgery
Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…
Pisa
Say ‘Pisa’ and everyone thinks of the Leaning Tower. Fair enough; it’s a curiosity, and the tourist board must be…
The joy of physics
How a book on relativity and quantum theory became a surprise hit
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Mrs Badgery
Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Mrs Badgery
Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…
Silent strongman Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Russia’s military aggression
Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Putin’s military aggression
Cooler heads
The age of climate realism is upon us
Strange young things
Why are so many Conservative activists so noxious?
The real victims of climate change
In trying to protect ‘our grandchildren’ from climate change, politicians are hurting the poor. They shouldn’t
