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Bolivia
for Lucy Dallas Because they wanted to go home and some bit part, a rat in deep cover, raised the…
Rise of the new young puritans
Twenty-first century political correctness isn’t benign: it’s creepy and all too keen on witch-hunts
The new PC from A to Z
Anyone who thought political correctness had croaked, joining neon leg warmers, mullets and MC Hammer in the graveyard of bad…
Jail break
In the past two years, our prisons have gone from places of rehabilitation to pits of despair
The Tooting poisoner
In my London neighbourhood, an argument about urban foxes is turning very nasty indeed
Faith in freedom
What’s wrong with calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’
Dangerous characters
The world’s most expensive typing errors, and how they were made
Venice
I arrived in Venice believing it would reek of sewage. It didn’t. The walk into the centre went through cobbled…
The great European revolt
For Angela Merkel, it’s a crisis. For David Cameron, it’s an opportunity
Study
I’d tell you I came back here, that I’m writing in this room, if you had not found another and…
Dresden notebook
Sachsenschweine — Saxon pigs — said the graffiti as my train moved out of Berlin on its way to Dresden.…
The Charles problem
The Prince of Wales has shown himself too vain to accept the limits of constitutional monarchy
The silent victory
Schools are the one area where this government has made a real, positive difference – but it’s scared stiff of saying so
Flowering obsession
The roots of snowdrop fever
The joy of six
Why I’m glad to have five children, with a sixth on the way
Only capitalism can save Nigeria
Is West Africa's powerhouse headed for a boom - or a coup?
Making history
In a recent interview, the celebrity historian and Tudor expert David Starkey described Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall as a ‘deliberate…
Glasgow School of Art
I was working on the final edit of my book — a fictionalised account of the year Charles Rennie Mackintosh…
Study
I’d tell you I came back here, that I’m writing in this room, if you had not found another and…
Study
I’d tell you I came back here, that I’m writing in this room, if you had not found another and…
Gagging order
Why has politics turned into stand-up?
The Deer
In the summer fields your life left you. She ran out from under the hood of your heart and tottered…
Tony’s toxic legacy
Labour's attitude to wealth is sliding back into the 1970s - and Tony Blair's new career is one reason why
Uni’s out
Why being a graduate is about to lose its prestige
Gay right
Marine Le Pen’s unlikely rainbow coalition
