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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
Life after Aids
In the West, the deadliest thing about HIV may now be the stigma
Maths and masterpieces
The Indian inspiration with which Piero della Francesca created ‘the greatest picture in the world’
Athens
Where in the developed world can you ride a moped, minus helmet, at 2 a.m. under the noses of weary…
Preset Image Valentine
Intimacy these days discomforts. More our style is the park or the pub, or three-minded chess with young Kasparov. A…
Preset Image Valentine
Intimacy these days discomforts. More our style is the park or the pub, or three-minded chess with young Kasparov. A…
Voice of Britain
Shakespeare defined our united national culture – and now he can help save it
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
The British clan
The Scots and the English have far more in common than the SNP likes to admit
