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Lapwing
Lapwing leans against the wind, First hint of changing season Come to turn the soil to stone And bring the…
Teaching’s war on science
There’s an increasing amount of evidence about how we learn. But you won’t hear about it at teacher training college
Lessons in freedom
How politicians wreck education
Absent friends
Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them
Here come the dog police
Feral bureaucrats are banning dogs from places they’ve been walked for generations. But now owners are fighting back
Crimean notebook
Vladimir Putin still swears that there are no Russian troops in Crimea, so their mission is to say as little…
Paris
No city really multitasks like Paris, shorthand for romance, culture, fashion, gastronomy and the kind of street life you find…
Lapwing
Lapwing leans against the wind, First hint of changing season Come to turn the soil to stone And bring the…
Lapwing
Lapwing leans against the wind, First hint of changing season Come to turn the soil to stone And bring the…
Europe’s nightmare neighbour
Putin has now broken the post-Cold War consensus for good. But Russia may not enjoy the results
Estonia’s angst
For eastern Europeans, the Crimean crisis feels very close to home
Sex by the book
Is there any kind of love that novelists still can’t touch?
Paddy power
Transport Secretary and ex-miner Patrick McLoughlin on chasing Ukip and why HS2 won’t be a done deal by the election
The war on beauty
Gardens should be places of pleasure, not eco-correctness
An actor’s notebook
It was one of those weeks. On Monday, I was in four countries: I woke up at crack of dawn…
Stealing history
What do you feel when a survivor of Auschwitz tells you their story?
The hypocrisy game
If anti-gay laws make it wrong to ski in Russia, don’t they also make it wrong to play cricket in Bangladesh?
Venice
For Henry James it was ‘the repository of consolations’. Wordsworth, an earlier visitor, called it ‘the eldest child of liberty’.…
Cameron’s Northern Alliance
He has assembled a group of like-minded Europeans who have a plausible agenda to reshape the EU
Lord Baker’s college days
The former Education Secretary is still remaking the school system at the age of 79
The Labour party at prayer
Believe me, it’s not easy to be a Tory in today’s C of E
The joy of being hated
I know it’s not for everyone, but an online bitch-fight is so bracing
Alfred’s greatest moment
If he hadn’t survived the Twelfth Night raid of 878, England as we know it might never have existed
Art in country houses
Last year 114,000 people flocked to Houghton Hall in north Norfolk for a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. Part of the great…
Putin’s masterplan
Russia is returning as an ideological force in the world – to champion conservative values
