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A Theatre Supper
I don’t know why it’s become important to me: the idea of a theatre supper at home? Maybe it’s a…
Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive
I can see your teeth clench with rage at the gift I have pressed on you, which manoeuvres you into…
A Theatre Supper
I don’t know why it’s become important to me: the idea of a theatre supper at home? Maybe it’s a…
Divide and don’t rule
Cameron’s inability to manage schisms within his own party could cost him the election
Revolt on the right
Eurosceptics are sensing a new opportunity
A ladder for everyone
Justine Greening says that the Conservatives will not win big until they really home in on social mobility
Russia’s Nato myth
Claims by Putin and Gorbachev about the post-Soviet settlement are contradicted by their country’s own secret records
A life worth living
I know that people with Down’s syndrome are not better off dead, because I know my son
The final crossing
Italy’s decriminalising of illegal immigration has acted as a green light to boat people, and the journey is a deadly one
A vote for real politics
Whatever the outcome of the referendum, Scotland will be better for having had the debate
Waiting for the backlash
The headlines give British Muslims good reason to worry
Sicily
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Sicily is anything like the Isle of Wight: it’s 70 times the size,…
999 emergency
Britain’s ambulance services are in crisis. When will the government notice?
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
The frightening face of Russia’s future
Cuddly liberals aren’t going to displace Putin: his real challengers are ultra-nationalists like Igor Strelkov
Does social work work?
The appalling abuse in Rotherham suggests it does not
Off the telly
In the world of YouTube and Netflix, generations no longer share a culture
More war for oil
You can’t understand any of the world’s crises without understanding petropolitics
A sense of injustice
Sister Christine Frost, who works on an east London estate, sees why young Muslim men are going to fight in Iraq and Syria
Gaudy notebook
As the BA flight from Warsaw landed at Heathrow, I felt a little tremor of anxiety, though it wasn’t anything…
Love, care and laughter
Remembering Candida Lycett Green
The perfect malt
It was poker night. Five yuppies crammed round a table in a room at the back of a south London…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
Born-again campaigners
Daniel Jackson 30 August 2014 9:00 am
The push for Scottish independence is driven forward by converts’ zeal