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Unfit for purpose
The General Medical Council has lost the trust of doctors
Hand luggage
The general flying advice this year, with airports resembling cattle markets and when you can’t be sure if you’re ever…
Watering
In the hot, dry summer of 1976, I was working as a gardening student at Arboretum Kalmthout in Belgium. The…
Don’t grass
A neighbourly feud is worse than a hosepipe ban
Send off
The joys of editing a newspaper letters page
Water isn’t working
Who’s to blame for the shortages?
Steeple chaser
The high life of a stonemason
Liberté, égalité, nudité
France’s new sexual politics
Construction works
It’s time for some old-fashioned Tory state-building
What a drag
Why are protestors so angry about a children’s story hour?
Going bananas
America is fast regressing
China’s baby bust
The demographic crisis might stall its rise
How to be PM
Ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
Beard oil
Every few months I take out a box of essential oils and carefully lay them out on my kitchen table,…
Network failure
Why must my mobile provider harass me all through my holiday?
Planet Liz
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
Putin’s grand illusions
Sanctions are working — whatever Russia says
The tiger who came for me
What we can learn from Jim Corbett’s big-cat tales
Rooting for Rishi
How Sunak wowed the Tories of West Suffolk
National cycle routes
Many of us daydream about escaping into an imaginary parallel universe. The good news is that Britain has its own…
Running to keep up
Why Sunak suddenly finds himself facing defeat
Chinese checkers
The threat our politicians don’t seem to have noticed
Cutting corners
The NHS is letting down patients in small, crucial ways
You’re history
Making memories is different in the digital age
‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’
As the leadership contest hots up, Charles Moore and Rishi Sunak sit down for a chat
