Features
So long, truckers
How a once fun job lost its charm
Our man in Rwanda
When will Britain wake up to the horror of Paul Kagame’s rule?
Passports
The Egyptologist Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson interprets drawings in a tomb in Thebes as persons queuing up to have passports…
A load of Kabul
Britain’s empty asylum promises
Treehouses
You can’t (and probably shouldn’t) design a treehouse. Treehouses should grow organically, in every sense: they must be made of…
Fine line
Can cartoons be both funny – and diverse?
The assetocracy
Why politicians are competing to bribe the affluent
Full circle
How the left thought they were right to fight the war on terror
Boosterism
Third jabs need to be rolled out right away
Letter from Kabul
The Taliban Cultural Commission sounds a contradiction in terms but for all foreign journalists it’s the first stop in the…
Sweet and sour
The hell of London’s ‘American’ candy stores
Tales from the Gulag
Why I’m helping survivors tell their stories
Lack of personality cult
How ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ took over China’s classrooms
Hitting homes
The government’s social care reform plans are all wrong
Blurred vision
The fight for the future of the Church of England
Born again
The rise of the secular godparent
Leotards
Jules Léotard was blessed in his name. It might have been quite different had he been called, say, Jules Droupé.…
‘Britain is not a superpower’
The Defence Secretary on Afghanistan and the questions facing the West
London notebook
In London for the first time in 18 months, I was as excited as a child on a birthday outing.…
Memory sticks
Technology is robbing us of the power to forget
Political beasts
How pets became the national priority
Eels
The migration of European eels is one of the miracles of nature. They start life in the great deeps of…
Booster effect
Is Israel facing a fourth wave?
The long haul
My post-viral battle
Fatherland
The Sandhurst graduate taking on the Taliban
