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This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
Marseille
If you haven’t been lost in Marseille then you can’t have been there. As Alexandre Dumas wrote, this is a…
This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
‘I have worked my socks off’
An interview with David Cameron
The boy David
Lunch with a young Cameron on polling day, 1992
The Plame game
Scooter Libby’s conviction looks ever shakier – and a sign of the deep problem with America’s special prosecutors
Rhodes to nowhere
Protesting students in Cape Town may disdain the statue of Cecil Rhodes, yet they do not reject his legacy
The other kingmaker
In a Tory-leaning hung parliament, the DUP’s Nigel Dodds may command the balance of power. So what does he want?
Shrunk
America’s psychoanalysts are becoming an endangered species
The roots of the matter
British people buy £43 million worth of human hair a year. So who’s selling?
Palace Notebook
The day of my investiture at Buckingham Palace dawned bringing freezing rain and fierce winds, which lashed at the windows…
Remembering Raymond
Laughter, bird-watching and erudition with Raymond Carr
Wine tasting
One of the great jokes of the wine trade is: ‘Have you ever confused Burgundy with Bordeaux?’ ‘Not since this…
Sign of the Vulcan
She was considered the cleverest girl in the school, and deservedly so, and as such started the lower sixth with…
Sign of the Vulcan
She was considered the cleverest girl in the school, and deservedly so, and as such started the lower sixth with…
Wine tasting
One of the great jokes of the wine trade is: ‘Have you ever confused Burgundy with Bordeaux?’ ‘Not since this…
Sign of the Vulcan
She was considered the cleverest girl in the school, and deservedly so, and as such started the lower sixth with…
Mob rules
Would-be leaders of the left are harnessing the mood of angry populism
Hillary’s left turn
If you want to be the Democratic nominee, it’s populism or bust
Scotland’s new national faith
The great SNP revival, and why it’s impervious to reason
Easy virtue
Why do the right thing when you can simply say the right thing?
Fat chance
Why I am not dieting. Ever
‘Paint goes on living’
Maggi Hambling on Rembrandt, Twombly and the power of art
Jews against Miliband
Labour’s leader would be the first Jewish prime minister since Disraeli – so how has he alienated so many Jewish voters?
Møn
The sky over the island of Møn, which is at the bottom right of Denmark, was cobalt and the whitewashed…
