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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
Viral misinformation
Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins
Facing facts
The truth about male ‘competitiveness’
#XiToo
Can the CCP control China’s harassment scandals?
No direction home
I’m one of the stranded expats
Fortress Oz
Australia’s zero-Covid policy has become a trap
Ghosted
What happens to a family when a parent disappears?
Mission unaccomplished
The West’s war in Afghanistan was always doomed
Right as rain
Don’t blame climate change for the British weather
Sensory deprivation tanks
Hidden below St George’s Wharf in Vauxhall, down the road from a now defunct gay sauna, is Floatworks, a wellness…
Zero tolerance
China’s Covid policy can’t last
Poor substitute
How corporations rebrand poverty
London calling
Why I’ve gone back to city life
The Greater Game
Central Asian geopolitics have been transformed
New radicals
The younger Taliban are ambitious – and more brutal than ever
Golden age
Fifty years on, we’re still counting the cost of the ‘Nixon shock’
