Features
Reclaiming Islam
Can Islam be reconciled with free expression? The answer is yes
Dare to be unaware
Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them
Operation NHS
Simon Stevens, the new head of the health service, is more radical than the Tories have realised
A dying language
Why I won’t let my children be taught French
Putin’s poison pill
Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president
The equal pay bomb
Birmingham’s £1 billion equal-value pay claim could make public-sector employment a thing of the past
Madrid
I got Madrid utterly wrong for quite a long time. It’s a lovely city to walk in, and I thought…
Cash for class
What money can buy in the modern British establishment
A Short Attachment
I was in love for a whole week after Episode One: Your voice so tender, so knowledgeable, your slender hands…
Putin’s winning hand
Russia is making the West look posturing, weak and divided
Hard times for Hamas
The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans
The joy of less sex
I used to think nothing would ever be more important. I was wrong
How was it for you?
Everyone’s a critic, but that doesn’t mean we want to fill in a survey every time we buy a meal
The wrong kind of granny
When I told a friend that my nine-year-old son was staying with his grandparents for the whole week of the…
Investment: Confessions of a share tipper
When I get it right, I shout about it. And when I get it wrong? Well, just between us…
Investment: Ageing bull
In London and New York, share prices have risen for five years running. So is it time to sell?
Investment: Be tech savvy
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
Notes on… Wallpaper
Every night, while my husband reads by screen-light, my mind runs like an invisible rat two miles north to the…
A Short Attachment
I was in love for a whole week after Episode One: Your voice so tender, so knowledgeable, your slender hands…
A Short Attachment
I was in love for a whole week after Episode One: Your voice so tender, so knowledgeable, your slender hands…
Meeting the monster
Michael Gove inspires irrational hatred among my fellow children’s authors. After interviewing him, I can finally see why
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
