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Video nasty
The TikTokisation of global politics
The warm-up
If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come
Bloc buster
David Frost on Brexit, Barnier and the backstop
Road trip notebook
Before pandemic I thought I might drive across America, or even France. Now — what about Kent, the garden of…
Refuseniks
‘Vaccine refusenik’ is the latest catchphrase used to disparage anyone unwilling — for whatever reason — to roll up their…
Dark matter
Being a Goth has its bright sides
Comedy gold
The economics of internet irony
Hares
The numbers of the dear old mountain hare in England are becoming perilously depleted. A researcher, Carlos Bedson, has suggested…
Stone deaf
In the wake of a pandemic, why is the C of E obsessing about statues?
Letter from Israel
Jerusalem Thomas Friedman has a lot to answer for. The New York Times’s oracle has ruined, through overuse in his…
Extreme measures
Britain must investigate its Islamist ‘dawa’ networks
Highland games
Will Boris Johnson call Nicola Sturgeon’s bluff?
Open arms
It’s the hugs vs the hug-nots
‘A worse pandemic will be next’
Michael Lewis on the scientists who saw Covid coming – and were ignored
Now we’re talking
The rules of post-lockdown conversation
Home economics
There’s nothing unjust about selling the family house to pay for care
Customer disservice
The insidious creep of corporate friendliness
Affronted
The problem with London’s fake facades
‘I can just be myself’
Can Anas Sarwar woo Scottish voters back?
Dandelions
Dandelions are one of the cheeriest wild flowers. They are loved by children for their ‘clock’ seed heads, are entirely…
A stitch in time
What to include in a memory box of the plague year?
Parent trap
Welcome to the cripplingly expensive world of childcare, Boris
China envy
From spending to lockdown, the West is copying Beijing
Trail of tears
Why India is reluctant to lock down again
The Watts Memorial
Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole died last weekend saving a woman’s life. Hearing her cries as she fell into the Thames from London…
