Features
Portraits in cowardice
Like other branches of the liberal establishment, the art world is all for challenging religion – unless it’s Islam
Off your bike!
Why it’s time for a campaign against cycling
Malala’s school wars
It’s not state education but private education she’s fighting for – so why doesn’t the media admit that?
Fragile China
For all its bombast and success, the Chinese Communist party faces a host of looming problems – and a big decision
The new tomb raiders
In Egypt’s turmoil, many ancient sites are being looted
Painting out the past
The discovery of a hoard of lost paintings is a reminder that denial still exists in the German art world
Notes on…Leaf-peeping in Gloucestershire
Don’t delay — this is the year to visit the National Arboretum. Thanks to the long hours of sunlight we…
Rural revolt
The shires feel deeply abandoned by Cameron and the Conservatives
Sandhurst in the sand
Afghanistan’s new, British-led military academy may prove our most lasting legacy
Grave pleasures
How to get the best out of visiting a cemetery
Flirting with disaster
Why can’t British men flirt? This was one of my first thoughts when I arrived in England some years ago.…
They still don’t get it
Ministers are finally acting on my warnings about health tourism. But they aren’t doing enough
The fight for our lives
If the Assisted Dying Bill goes through, how will we stop terminally ill people from feeling pressured to hasten their own deaths?
The age of the Yuffies
How to survive when you’re overeducated and underemployed
Investment: Bargains for bravehearts
An investor’s guide to the Scottish referendum
Investment: Power failures
Politics makes it hard to pick winners in the energy sector
Investment: A plague on our houses
Mansion taxes may be inevitable – and will make us all poorer
Investment: Banking 2.0
The financial crisis is the catalyst for a belated revolution
Notes on … Christmas shopping in Bruges
Most Belgians of my acquaintance tend to be rather disparaging about Bruges. It’s a theme park, they say, a Flemish…
PCs gone mad
Crime is falling, but the police are as busy as ever – undermining our freedoms
Bushfire notebook
Australia One of the odd things about bushfires as we know them in Australia is the unlikely truces declared between…
The battle of the bushmen
Botswana’s shame – and ours
Passion player
Zoë Wanamaker on politics, acting, and drinking vodka
Arthur Laffer: how cuts succeeded where stimulus failed
High government spending increases unemployment and slows economic recovery
The morality gap
The world can now be divided between post- and pre-enlightened countries
