Features
Novel distractions
Procrastination is easier in the age of Google – but less honest
Michael Gove’s secret fan club
Meet the teachers who are (quietly) grateful to the former education secretary
Jawaab explained
It is not easy to be young, British and Muslim. Since the atrocities of 9/11 and 7/7, the media has…
Impressionist Paris
The spectre of the Charlie Hebdo killings still hangs over Paris. Outside the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, opposite the…
Adam and Eve Take an Allotment
The figure in the shadows stared at Eve And shook the beans inside the bag. ‘Believe Me, crops of serpentini…
Impressionist Paris
The spectre of the Charlie Hebdo killings still hangs over Paris. Outside the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, opposite the…
Adam and Eve Take an Allotment
The figure in the shadows stared at Eve And shook the beans inside the bag. ‘Believe Me, crops of serpentini…
PCs gone bad
We like to think we have the cleanest police in the world. We may no longer be right
Up at the Villa
Figs, lemons, almonds and holidaymakers, the fronds of palms and those fierce plants whose sharp extrusions in place of leaves,…
Islam’s squeezed middle
Is there a future for a moderate activist group fighting anti-Muslim prejudice?
What Ukip wants
Inside the party’s Mayfair headquarters
Northern exposure
George Osborne on his love affair with Greater Manchester, and his party’s need for ‘a bit of the Heseltine’
The empire-builders
For Nato and the EU as much as for Putin, Ukraine is a question not of virtue but of power and land
The topless feminists
Can you really fight the male gaze by exposing your breasts?
Notes from a ceasefire
Ukraine’s war goes on – in some places now, and soon everywhere
Athens
My first visit to Athens as a student gave me a set of impressions that the present crisis has only…
Up at the Villa
Figs, lemons, almonds and holidaymakers, the fronds of palms and those fierce plants whose sharp extrusions in place of leaves,…
Athens
My first visit to Athens as a student gave me a set of impressions that the present crisis has only…
Up at the Villa
Figs, lemons, almonds and holidaymakers, the fronds of palms and those fierce plants whose sharp extrusions in place of leaves,…
Divided we fall
A landslide for the SNP will inevitably lead to the end of the Union
Small things in the cathedral
A place to see the little things between the monuments and tombs. As in the chapel of St Gabriel, a…
Stand up for ex-Muslims
These people are risking their lives for the freedom not to believe – and liberal Britain is betraying them
The war on rural England
The coalition is letting developers concrete over the countryside, but that won’t help young people buy houses
The American tradition
Making up traditions
Feel the burn
My trendy wood-burning stove is leaving me cold, wheezy, red-eyed and exhausted
