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Cult hit
The enduring power of Japan’s doomsday groups
Bagpipes
Many people love to hate bagpipes. Everyone from William Shakespeare to Alfred Hitchcock has held them in contempt. For some,…
Reality bites
No wonder the President would rather be asleep
The stolen children
My family still bears the scars of the forced adoption scandal
Fight club
When book groups turn nasty
Halloween turnips
You see them everywhere in vast orange mounds: pumpkins, piles of pumpkins, large enough to be turned into a coach…
In good faith
Why I’m bribing my daughter to get confirmed
Promising the world
Will COP26 actually achieve anything?
Letter from Israel
From an Israeli army base on the border with Lebanon, I can see the village of Maroun al-Ras. An Iranian…
Dirty green giants
What’s really behind the net-zero zealotry of big businesses?
Nuclear option
It’s time we conquered our fears over the safest power of all
The blame game
Anxiety among Tory MPs is growing
A night in Béziers
Zemmour’s star power is undeniable
The Z factor
France’s new insurgent, Éric Zemmour
Meat and two veg
My evening at a naked dining club
Sloes
The gin craze of recent years has reached a scale that would have horrified Hogarth. You can now buy strawberry,…
Letter from Rome
‘Excommunication,’ reads a stone plaque on the wall of the church of St Theodore in Rome, ‘and a fine of…
Radical error
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
‘A change of mind and heart’
Michael Nazir-Ali on his decision to join the Catholic church
Wake-up call
Why is it so hard to live without a mobile phone?
Wuhan clan
The price I paid for my lab leak exposé
Baby doomers
Why are so many people putting the planet before parenthood?
Whatnots to like
The joy of a cluttered museum
Conkers
Last weekend, for the 54th time, hundreds of competitors met to compete for the title of world conker champion in…
Pass judgment
Italy’s anti-Green Pass movement has a new figurehead
