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The forgotten liberator
Slavery was ended in England not through blood and glory, but by the common law
Save the children
When will we stop the Islamists trying to control the minds of a generation of pupils?
Memory
While in the mirror I’m an aging face More or less the same day after day, In the mind’s darker…
Who runs Britain’s mosques?
Not the moderates we would hope for
World Cup magic
Let’s drop the cynicism and support Roy Hodgson’s England team
An open book
Kindle highlights turn the lonely pleasures of reading into a communal event
Breast advice
Why isn’t there a proper service to show new nursing mothers how to feed their babies?
Salzburg
Salzburg is so ridiculously pretty, it’s sometimes hard to take it seriously. Standing on the ramparts of its knights-in-armour castle,…
Memory
While in the mirror I’m an aging face More or less the same day after day, In the mind’s darker…
Memory
While in the mirror I’m an aging face More or less the same day after day, In the mind’s darker…
French suicide
The desperate state of its politics seems to signal the end of the Republic
D-Day Notebook
The phrase ‘ring of steel’ hardly begins to describe the operation here in Calvados country as we await the 70th…
Witness to a stoning
Islam knows it is under siege – and the fear makes it more brutal
Heavy mob
Why slimming clubs don’t deserve public money
Keeper of the secrets
Memories of Mary Soames, Churchill’s remarkable daughter
Moscow’s Wizard of Oz
Fake menace and real concessions, fake concessions and real menace… what’s behind the curtain of Putin’s grandiose foreign policy?
Wexford
I might have had chance to visit the famed Wexford Opera Festival when I was walking out with Bernard Levin…
The dilemma for Dave
Cameron must move from badmouthing Ukip to addressing the fears of its voters
Approaching Little Big Horn
All spring the scattered bands gathered, the People, the Human Beings, all those like themselves on this earth — Lakota…
Big state, big mistake
The West must wake up and reform, or face decline
Ken Loach is a bore
He hasn’t made anything worth watching since Kes
A bad lot
Quite a few of the former president Yanukovych’s ‘treasures’ seem to carry tags from London auctioneers
Salmond’s secret weapon
Nothing makes Scots feel more Scottish than England playing in a World Cup
A broadcaster’s notebook
I usually spend most of the week at home in South Devon in front of my computer. But for the…
Sacred hunger
Atheists are blind to a fundamental human need
