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A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels has given Assad the enemy he wants
A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels leaves the West’s friends in the country weaker than ever
If nurses are really 'at breaking point', they should stop working 12-hour shifts
The real reason nurses are tired and cross
Witch-hunting capitalism in Africa
It’s become trendy to blame capitalism for witchcraft in Africa
Chaps, if we want grandchildren, we need to stop the skinny jeans fad
Why will no one sell trousers that fit me?
Do miracles happen?
Here’s why
Why Britain’s economy will overtake Germany’s
Why the UK economy will one day overtake Germany
If only more banks were more like Wonga
There’s an unlikely new role model for sellers of savings products
Mark Carney has a £250,000 housing allowance - why would he care about rising property prices?
Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ already looks like a farce
If you think British banks are bad, you’ve never tried China’s
China’s banks are weak, ill-managed puppets of the state
Notes on …The Tarn Valley
Why didn’t I know about the Tarn Valley? I’d often been right next door. But here, north-east of Toulouse, between…
Ukip, the gateway drug — how Cameron can exploit Nigel Farage
Cameron must appeal not to the party’s leadership but to its voters
Unite the right! Email Toby Young at conukip@gmail.com
Whatever the leaders think, we can create a Tory-Ukip pact from the bottom up
A man of his Times - the curious case of Lord Finkelstein
Ennobled after loyal service to the government, Lord Finkelstein embodies the collapse of boundaries between newspapers and politics
How we survived terror at Nairobi's Westgate mall
What it was like at the Westgate mall, from two of those who survived
Al-Qa'eda targeted Kenya not because it's a banana republic, but because it's a symbol of African success
If Al-Shabaab was behind the terrorist attack in Nairobi, then the group has come a long way since its foundation…
Chris Grayling: 'I want to see our Supreme Court supreme again'
It’s not enough to repeal the Human Rights Act, says Chris Grayling – our Supreme Court, not Strasbourg, must be supreme
Electric cars - the ultimate subsidy for the rich
The winning essay in our contest for exposing environmental pseudoscience takes on the expensive and damaging myth of the electric car
Notes on…The house museums of Paris
It doesn’t matter how many times they expand the Louvre or the Musée d’Orsay, Paris’s past is so colossally rich…
Laugh now, but Ed Miliband and Ed Balls could soon be running the country
Unless something drastic changes in the polls, the Tories will pay dearly for treating Miliband as a joke. And so will the rest of us
Tristram Hunt: Ed Miliband would be 'radical' in office - if he gets there
Tristram Hunt represents the slice of Labour that Miliband most needs to hold on to
Haunted by Facebook, students can't now reinvent themselves at university
Facebook makes reinventing yourself at university much trickier
My 50 weddings
The lessons of a perpetual guest
Merkel will win - because my fellow Germans dare not speak of national self interest
Germany’s integrationalist elite are prepared to pay out forever to protect the euro
I exposed the 'Plebgate' stitch-up last year. So why are the police still investigating?
Was there a conspiracy against Andrew Mitchell? And why have the police gone quiet on the subject?
Notes on …Vodka
James Bond’s ‘Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred’ will never be a mark of sophistication for me because vodka and I…
