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The wrong cuts
Jeremy Hunt is right to fight for NHS reform. But he’s going after the wrong people, on the wrong issue
A trust betrayed
Like many of my fellow junior doctors, I trusted a Conservative government with the NHS. If it’s to stay strong…
The caliphate strikes back
Isis could be on the brink of creating a terrifying new world order
Lessons in jargon
Schools are becoming addicted to acronyms. It’s not just silly, it’s dangerous
The war on pensioners
Young people are being taught to resent their elders on the basis of tendentious claims and alarmist statistics
Send in the clones
The super-rich are already bringing beloved dogs and horses back to life. Soon the rest of us will be able to do it too
Secret ski resorts
Skiing holidays have a problem. They’ve lost their sense of adventure. Yes, the first flurries of winter which arrived recently…
Secret ski resorts
Skiing holidays have a problem. They’ve lost their sense of adventure. Yes, the first flurries of winter which arrived recently…
We could end HIV
A new drug could reduce new infections to zero – so why hasn’t the NHS backed it yet?
Pope vs church
Francis’s haphazard reforms risk sparking a Catholic civil war
Who isn’t genderfluid?
Sex has always been less binary than it looks – but we’ve never been this boring about it
Britain’s armed forces no longer have the resources for a major war
Our armed forces have been cut too far to fight a meaningful war – and the coming defence review looks unlikely to change that
The secret brilliance of Prince Philip’s ‘gaffes’
I’ve just been on the receiving end of a Prince Philip gaffe, of sorts, and I loved it. It was…
The Church of England’s shameful betrayal of bishop George Bell
The Church of England has rushed to posthumously condemn one of the greatest men it has produced
Christmas markets
Why the fuss about German Christmas markets? Surely they’re just schmaltzy shanty towns, full of stuff you’d never dream of…
En Retrait
Since I decided to accept this quiet corner of the garden as my undeserved Elysium and to make the birdsong…
En Retrait
Since I decided to accept this quiet corner of the garden as my undeserved Elysium and to make the birdsong…
En Retrait
Since I decided to accept this quiet corner of the garden as my undeserved Elysium and to make the birdsong…
Christmas markets
Why the fuss about German Christmas markets? Surely they’re just schmaltzy shanty towns, full of stuff you’d never dream of…
Bone Scanning
Perhaps like Superman I will see through walls now that I’ve tanked up on isotopes lighting bruise-blue veins and sparking…
The Lake District
Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling is the best thing in the Lake District. I lived near Wigton, just north of the…
Bone Scanning
Perhaps like Superman I will see through walls now that I’ve tanked up on isotopes lighting bruise-blue veins and sparking…
Converting the Corbyn cult
Before they can talk to the wider electorate, Labour MPs must win a life-or-death argument with their core supporters
Germany’s dark night of the soul
The migrant crisis is testing the country’s post-war idea of itself
Bone Scanning
Perhaps like Superman I will see through walls now that I’ve tanked up on isotopes lighting bruise-blue veins and sparking…
