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Assad’s little helper
The drug that’s funding the Syrian regime
Elf and safety
Are child protection guidelines killing Santa’s appeal?
Letter from Turkey
‘Oh, you’ll hate it, Julia. It’s men talking about cars all the time. Really, really boring. You drive all day,…
Election notebook
Washington, D.C My local polling station is a Christian Brothers high school set amid football fields and parking lots.…
Divided states
America’s only clear election winner is paranoia
Age of unreason
The attempt to topple the Scottish Enlightenment
Russian roulette
The evolution of ‘tactical’ nuclear war
Shadow play
How Ed Miliband became the power behind Starmer
Hot air
The path to net zero is fraught with fallacy
Beware the super-app
Twitter today, WeChat tomorrow?
Try before you buy
Ukraine is becoming a test ground for other countries’ weapons
Grudge match
I’ll miss hating the Qatar World Cup
At sea
Can Rishi Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?
Long live the Kaiser
Inside Germany’s extreme monarchist movement
Literal tyranny
How a silly little bit of satire got me sacked
‘Let them contribute’
Former justice secretary Robert Buckland on the asylum crisis
Call of duty
How will his Hinduism inform the new Prime Minister?
Candles
Under the sink. That’s where most of us will be keeping a stash of candles in case the lights go…
Step up
Sunak’s first test will be getting through winter
‘Pure carnage’
The horror of writing Liz Truss’s biography
Liz Truss: my part in her downfall
Her former economic adviser on what went wrong
Whopping lie
Why are fat men seen as cuddly but fat women as a problem?
Down to the wire
Britain’s undersea cable network is horribly vulnerable
