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The Frogs of war
How France became the neocons’ favourite nation
Super-heads are a super-huge mistake
The system of parachuting top teachers into failing schools seems to have been a recipe for corruption
Power struggle
Bills are still going up in the long term – unless the government acts
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning
The winner of the first ever Michael Heath award for cartooning is Len Hawkins. One of his drawings appears below.…
Notes on … Christmas markets
Question: what do you call several dozen pop-up shops, all freshly popped up together at the one time of year…
Rod Liddle: The truths you can't tell in today's Britain
There are many truths that cannot be uttered in modern Britain
David Cameron is betraying Scotland's Unionists
Cameron is betraying Scotland’s Unionists
The Iran deal just shows how badly Obama has failed
He wasn’t the first president to promise to bend the arc of history. And he won’t be the last to fail
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning — shortlist (part 2)
Nine cartoonists are shortlisted for the first ever Michael Heath Award for cartooning. The theme of the contest, sponsored by…
Don't flog a dead parrot - leave Monty Python in the past
Monty Python was funny once. But a revival is a dreadful idea
Cure addiction the Mao Tse-tung way
A former addict and a doctor go head to head
Save our Van Dyck!
The Flemish artist’s final self-portrait was vital to British art. We’d be philistines to let it leave the country
Stuck for Christmas presents? Hit the museums
The plan to do last year’s Christmas shop at Peter Jones on 23 December was doomed from its sorry inception.…
Is addiction a disease?
Yes Trinny Woodall I’m Trinny, I’m an alcoholic and I’m an addict. When asked whether addiction is a disease, I…
The Revd Paul Flowers ticked all the right 'progressive' boxes — that's why he could get away with anything
The Paul Flowers scandal says much about social and political priorities of modern Britain
What rhetoric can do for you – and what you can do for rhetoric
The question is not what rhetoric can do for politicians. It’s what politicians can do for rhetoric
The death of Tory Anglicanism
Women bishops, gay marriage, and the death of Tory Anglicanism
How Britain invented freedom - and why we need to save it now
It’s time to rediscover the original Bill of Rights
Melissa Kite: I can no longer find knickers small enough to fit me
It’s becoming impossible to find knickers in my size
Profumo. Chatterley. The Beatles. 1963 was the year old England died
If you’re looking for the year when the old England died, this was it
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning — shortlist (part I)
Nine cartoonists are shortlisted for the first ever Michael Heath Award for cartooning. The theme of the contest, sponsored by…
Notes on…London galleries
Everybody knows that the London art scene is thriving, and so of course the big international commercial galleries have set…
Blackout Britain — why our energy crisis is only just beginning
Politicians, not the Big Six, have jacked up the price of power. And they’re only just getting started
Justice isn't supposed to make a victim 'feel better', Damian Green
Our ancient right to a fair, impartial trial is under threat
The man who made it OK to talk about immigration
How Professor Paul Collier has bypassed the liberal taboo on discussing immigration
