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How to run a revolution
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
Bats vs people
They are a protected species – we’re not
The secret fertility service
The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war
Be more tortoise
Five lessons from my new pet
The last male space
Why I love my barber’s
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Help the Aged
The elderly are being scapegoated for the economic misfortunes of the young – when in fact they are driving the recovery
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
The contented little prince
On raising a royal baby
Must I sponsor your misery?
Every charitable donation now seems to come with a promise to suffer
Osborne’s indecent proposal
The Chancellor is offering leftish council tenants like me a larger bribe than ever to abandon our principles
The good Iranian
If President Hassan Rouhani is anything like his mentor, peace has another chance
Intelligence? It’s in the genes
New research by Professor Robert Plomin shows genes are more important than we like to think
Notes on…Walking in the Lake District
What is it about the Lake District? The weather is often filthy, the locals are famously surly (‘sup up and…
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
Ruled by the colonies
Men from the Commonwealth – and they are men – are taking over the British establishment’s positions of power
Outplacements
He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalance and I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He…
The fraying of the NHS
The little signs of a service being pared away
Last orders at the Death Café
An attempt to break the taboo on mortality with the aid of coffee and biscuits
Fracking the village
What happens when talk of ‘exploratory drilling’ comes to a pretty corner of West Sussex
The war on Barbie
She’s loathed by topless German neo-feminists. But isn’t it time to cut her some slack?
Failing the Test
Test Match Special is the sound of the English summer. Why are we letting it be vulgarised?
Notes on…Normandy
There are some, I know, who for whom Normandy means the three Cs — cider, cream and calvados. But if,…
