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Eastern Germany
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, I’ve been pottering around eastern Germany, where my father’s family came from, and…
Atheism’s empty tomb
Dawkins and Grayling et al seem to have inspired a Christian fightback
Ethics for atheists
Can human life be sacred in a post-Christian world?
Can this man save Ukraine?
A rare interview with billionaire Ukrainian power broker Dmitry Firtash
Life after Aids
In the West, the deadliest thing about HIV may now be the stigma
Maths and masterpieces
The Indian inspiration with which Piero della Francesca created ‘the greatest picture in the world’
Athens
Where in the developed world can you ride a moped, minus helmet, at 2 a.m. under the noses of weary…
Preset Image Valentine
Intimacy these days discomforts. More our style is the park or the pub, or three-minded chess with young Kasparov. A…
Preset Image Valentine
Intimacy these days discomforts. More our style is the park or the pub, or three-minded chess with young Kasparov. A…
Voice of Britain
Shakespeare defined our united national culture – and now he can help save it
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
The British clan
The Scots and the English have far more in common than the SNP likes to admit
How fascist is Svoboda?
Encounters with the rightward edge of Ukraine’s new government
Gone with the wind turbine
City skylines are protected from careless building. Why should country views be different?
The summer of love
I spent it skipping about in tights, imagining women wanted me
Rise of the mayors
The power to effect real change may lie with dynamic city halls rather than ossified national governments
Book clubs
Everyone knows somebody who belongs to a book club. From informal gatherings of bookish friends in living rooms and cafés…
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
Armageddon averted
Adapting to climate change is far more effective than trying to stop it
A Mixed Ability Room
the english foxhound likes to bay his enemy is the wind instead of grief he feels relief at every innovative…
Let them eat carbon credits
How green policies hit the poorest hardest
The gay double standard
Why should our marriages demand less than straight ones?
Never say ‘never again’
Twenty years ago, I was a witness to the Rwandan genocide. Those who speak of lessons from it are deluded
The need for speed
How the US stock market became ‘a war of robots’
