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Hermit
Let’s celebrate the solitary meal: the serendipitous trawl through the fridge; the hopeful foray into the deep freeze, the obliging…
The Corbyn enigma
How do you solve a problem like Jezza?
Surviving the purge
Labour’s centrist forces could take years to recover. Or forever
Labour’s iron lady?
An interview with Yvette Cooper
Forget Chilcot
What we really need is an inquiry into why so many of us are so eager to support ‘humanitarian’ wars
Summer’s end
Hedonism, tragedy and me
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
How to build a school
Lessons from the first year of our specialist maths school
Green with rage
Environmental nannying is wrecking my beloved Bristol
Venice Notebook
Almost all of Venice’s greatest treasures are on public view. Anyone who visits can look across from the Doge’s Palace…
Dublin
What a delight it is to toy with a wooden newspaper-holder rather than a smartphone, tucked away in the cosy…
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
Dublin
What a delight it is to toy with a wooden newspaper-holder rather than a smartphone, tucked away in the cosy…
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
Death watch
If you don’t think legalising ‘assisted dying’ is a slippery slope, you haven’t been paying attention
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
Last orders
The fight to save the Gladstone Arms is the fight to save London
The breast test
New mothers who can’t keep to the breast-feeding orthodoxy face needless misery and shame
War still has the best tunes
Why our politicians keep going back to military intervention, no matter how often it fails
Powder to the people
Fierce competition is forcing drug dealers to adjust their sales methods
Pink horns and poison
Can anything protect the rhino from rapacious human stupidity?
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
