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Cake expectations
Afternoon tea has gone OTT
Who cared?
Lockdown killed my mother – and thousands like her
Stage fright
Uncertainty is crippling our cultural life
Pigeon racing
Pigeon racing isn’t much of a spectator sport. Race birds are driven to the ‘liberation point’, where they’re released to…
China’s manhunt
Is anywhere safe for the Uighurs?
Capital gains
Don’t pity me for living in London
The lost legacy
Merkel is leaving the EU in chaos
Blockheads
Why is modern architecture so ugly?
Spin doctors
How the Lancet lost our trust
The Pride flag
Last month, the Pride flag was updated by the Intersex Equality Rights UK campaign group — the simple rainbow was…
Tokyo drift
Understanding Japan is a life’s work
Triumph of the Taleban
Their patience is paying off
Lodestar
What the rise of Nooshi Dadgostar reveals about Europe’s collapsing centre
The house mafia
New-build developers are acting like a cartel
The party elite
Politicians made the rules – so they know how to bend them
Big spenders
Boris and Biden have placed their faith in the power of big government
The art of government
What politicians’ paintings say about them
Talking rubbish
The fraudulent business of recycling
The QE hangover
Andy Haldane on the true cost of cheap money
A dead cert
Covid or no Covid, we’re all going to snuff it
Bitterns
Bitterns are booming, both literally and metaphorically. These handsome brown birds from the heron family make a noise quite unlike…
Zoom and bust
The tech industry is braced for the post-pandemic blues
Total eclipse
Where did it all go wrong for the Sun?
Cornish pasties
This week, world leaders are doing what countless Brits do every summer: unpacking their bags in a charming corner of…
Oiling up
How China won over the Middle East
