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Exit strategy
I am ready to talk about my death. Is anyone else?
Will there be war in Ukraine?
Further Russian military intervention would be a disaster. But Putin might have to do it anyway
The wisdom of clouds
Children can teach each other, believes Sugata Mitra — if you give them the internet, a big screen and a helpful granny on Skype
Women against the vote
The suffragettes’ opponents deserve to be remembered sympathetically
The triumph of the bores
Being boring was once the worst of all social sins. Now it’s practically compulsory
The Himalayas
As the aircraft descends into the high altitude military airport at Leh, the first glimpse of the Himalayan Kingdom of…
The descent of man
It’s not just that women are doing better. Britain has a crisis of masculinity
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
Vape alarm
The e-cigarette means that tobacco is going the way of the top hat. So what is the medical establishment’s problem with it?
Beyoncé’s family values
Meet popular culture’s most powerful advocate for marriage
Shopping for the apocalypse
America’s doomsday preparedness industry is booming
This charming man
The Rt Revd John Bickersteth on guns, gays and the Queen
The Alpes-Maritimes
My mother always said she wanted to ‘die tidy’. But I never imagined she would file everything away quite so…
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
Back to the future
Ed Miliband is set to unleash a radical, Old Labour political agenda
Meet Team Miliband
A snapshot of Ed’s political pack
Clinton vs Bush – again
American politics looks increasingly like an oligarchy
Going underground
The strange fascination of tunnels and bunkers
For God’s sake
A Protestant country is a free country
Damascus Notebook
As I looked out of the window of my hotel bedroom, studying the view of central Damascus, the mobile phone…
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
