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A noble undertaking
By looking after the dead, funeral directors allow the living to love and mourn them
A warrant for exit
The European Arrest Warrant is incompatible with our tradition of justice
Facing their Waterloo
The French would still prefer to think of Napoleon’s last defeat as a moral victory
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Oh dear
How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Doctors’ orders
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, keep fit, die young
Big fat myths
Obesity isn’t soaring, and it doesn’t strain the NHS
Highland star
Charles Kennedy remembered
Shifting sands in Saudi
Why America’s once-cautious ally suddenly looks so skittish
Running wild
Every American election needs laughably improbable candidates
Degrees of bureaucracy
At Oxford and elsewhere, university administration is out of control
I second that emoji
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
Father’s Day
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
Father’s Day
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
How to defeat a caliphate
Private military contractors have done wonders against Boko Haram. They could against Isis, too
The will to fight
Isis have it. Who else?
Smash Isis now
Assassinate its leadership, destroy its sense of destiny
Len the loser
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
Unequal struggle
Joseph Stiglitz, the left’s favourite economist,on making the free market work
The farm that went wild
A piece of ancient England is being reborn around a castle in Sussex
Cameron’s friend in Brussels
Hungary’s Viktor Orban could be the PM’s most influential ally in EU renegotiations. So what does he want – and what can he get?
St Moritz
Here’s a tip: when travelling to St Moritz, it’s best not to mention the name of your final destination to…
