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The GPs’ revenge
For speaking frankly about the NHS, I was first silenced and then pushed out
The ugly game
I’ve spent years defending football from middle-class disdain. But I can’t do it any more
Putin and the polygamists
The Kremlin is tying itself in ideological knots as it tries to make new friends in the Muslim world
Oporto
‘When he’s away, the thing he misses about Porto is the tripe.’ I was talking to Eduarda Sandeman, wife of…
Days
when you weren’t anyone. Days gone undercover. Days half-dead in half-light, days under the covers. Days hoping for a dawn…
Oporto
‘When he’s away, the thing he misses about Porto is the tripe.’ I was talking to Eduarda Sandeman, wife of…
Days
when you weren’t anyone. Days gone undercover. Days half-dead in half-light, days under the covers. Days hoping for a dawn…
Osborne rules
The Chancellor has Westminster in his grip
Despair springs eternal
The left is always eager to be told that capitalism’s final crisis is upon us – and it is always disappointed
‘The smugglers don’t care’
On a Greek beach, watching migrants’ dinghies arrive from Turkey
Asking too much
Charities’ fundraising practices are out of control
The Trump slump
Once the Republicans end their embarrassing summer romance, they’re surprisingly well placed to beat Hillary Clinton
Glasgow
A wet walk in a Glaswegian graveyard might not be your idea of fun, but then you might not have…
Glasgow
A wet walk in a Glaswegian graveyard might not be your idea of fun, but then you might not have…
Caught on the net
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
Kisses of Virtuous Renunciation
He was checked in under the name Immortality, Mr Immortality — but on the vanity were the little capsules of…
Stop moaning, start building
The trouble with housing associations
Teenage terrors
One of the great moments of my student life was opening the door and seeing visitors step back, shocked. I’d…
Vive Hollande?
How France’s wobbly pudding of a president could still win again
Degrees in disaster
From Greece to Kenya, the worst economic ideas come from alumni of British universities
Dying for attention
In the social media age, breaking ‘the last taboo’ is de rigueur
Pop psychology
The secrets of bubble-wrap and other delicious little sensations
Florence
The British have always been in love with Florence. First visits cannot disappoint. One friend recalls being herded around as…
Kisses of Virtuous Renunciation
He was checked in under the name Immortality, Mr Immortality — but on the vanity were the little capsules of…
Florence
The British have always been in love with Florence. First visits cannot disappoint. One friend recalls being herded around as…
