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Loan survivor
How one small company was nearly squeezed to death by RBS
Shalom, Santa
What it takes to be Father Christmas in diverse north London
The Frogs of war
How France became the neocons’ favourite nation
Super-heads will roll
The system of parachuting top teachers into failing schools seems to have been a recipe for corruption
Power struggle
Bills are still going up in the long term – unless the government acts
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning
The winner of the first ever Michael Heath award for cartooning is Len Hawkins. One of his drawings appears below.…
Notes on … Christmas markets
Question: what do you call several dozen pop-up shops, all freshly popped up together at the one time of year…
You can’t say that
There are many truths that cannot be uttered in modern Britain
Let no mean no
Cameron is betraying Scotland’s Unionists
Obama’s thwarted hope
He wasn’t the first president to promise to bend the arc of history. And he won’t be the last to fail
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning
Nine cartoonists are shortlisted for the first ever Michael Heath Award for cartooning. The theme of the contest, sponsored by…
Flogging a dead parrot
Monty Python was funny once. But a revival is a dreadful idea
Is addiction a disease?
A former addict and a doctor go head to head
Save our Van Dyck
The Flemish artist’s final self-portrait was vital to British art. We’d be philistines to let it leave the country
Notes on … Museum shops
The plan to do last year’s Christmas shop at Peter Jones on 23 December was doomed from its sorry inception.…
Is addiction a disease?
Yes Trinny Woodall I’m Trinny, I’m an alcoholic and I’m an addict. When asked whether addiction is a disease, I…
An icon of our time
The Paul Flowers scandal says much about social and political priorities of modern Britain
Save the soundbite!
The question is not what rhetoric can do for politicians. It’s what politicians can do for rhetoric
Beyond belief
Women bishops, gay marriage, and the death of Tory Anglicanism
How we invented freedom
It’s time to rediscover the original Bill of Rights
Pants to the fatties
It’s becoming impossible to find knickers in my size
It all began in 1963
If you’re looking for the year when the old England died, this was it
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning
Nine cartoonists are shortlisted for the first ever Michael Heath Award for cartooning. The theme of the contest, sponsored by…
Notes on…London galleries
Everybody knows that the London art scene is thriving, and so of course the big international commercial galleries have set…
The real energy scandal
Politicians, not the Big Six, have jacked up the price of power. And they’re only just getting started
