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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
Anti heroes
Why this mad insistence that everyone has special powers?
The right note
What’s behind Africa’s love affair with country music?
Letter from France
Back in 1997 when I was narked on by a fellow journalist (Simon Walters, currently of the Times, then of…
Prime example
What the new PM could learn from Lee Kwan Yew
The final three
The leadership candidates on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
Trump’s revenge
Is he about to stage his comeback?
Blood lines
Where does a mother’s history end and a daughter’s begin?
Beyond a joke
The death of bad-taste humour
Hornets
There’s surely not a more despised creature in Britain than the hornet. They have long been viewed as yellow jacketed…
Best medicine
Home remedies are good for us — and the NHS
Knives out
To judge from their campaigns, the leadership contenders are all out of ideas
Letterheads
One of the pleasures of the letters from unhappy ministers to the Prime Minister last week (though not, presumably, for…
To infinity and beyond
How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead
You name it
The problem with ‘apostrophe laws’
Oil on troubled waters
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Boom time
Liz Truss on Brexit, internet censorship — and what she’d do in No. 10
Cakeconomics
Why Rishi Sunak quit
The contenders
Who are the Tories lining up to replace Boris?
End of the affair
When did mistresses forget the art of secrecy?
An existential war
Even wealthy émigrés are prepared to fight for Russia
Desire paths
Pause in a park or field in summer and look out across the grass and you’ll see a multitude of…
