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Army manoeuvres
Can Britain’s new military policy end decades of pretence?
A passage from India
The last children of the Raj
Preaching to the converted
The fake fight against ‘gay therapy’
Mead
The last time I drank mead was 7 April 1978. It was my 18th birthday and —unforgettably — it was…
A trail of mayhem
The historic failures of Ursula von der Leyen
War of words
The agony of literary envy
Riot club
Why privileged protestors flock to Bristol
Stumbling bloc
Europe’s vaccine meltdown
Minton tiles
It’s only since I moved to Staffordshire that I’ve come to appreciate that some of the finest works of public…
Out of the picture
The inevitable listlessness of this year’s awards season
Strait lines
Is Britain heading for war over Taiwan?
Churchill’s enigma
The real riddle is why he cosied up to Stalin
Teed off
An open letter to my golf club
Inspector Spector
Britain’s leading epidemiologist on the ticking time bomb of long Covid
Travel ban
Why Pontins thinks I’m an ‘undesirable guest’
Keir review
There’s logic behind the Labour leader’s approach
Opposites detract
The dangers of the Starmer-Johnson double act
Egrets
There’s an unwritten rule in newspaper journalism that any story about egrets must have one of two headlines. Either ‘no…
Letter from Japan
Tokyo This week was the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in…
Press gang
The dangers of televising lobby briefings
Mean girls
The return of the bitch is long overdue
Stranger than fiction
How I’d write Covid: The Thriller
Poles apart
Why the Polish community doesn’t want the vaccine
Infernal censorship
How Dante fell foul of the Chinese Communist party
In the mix
Why is it racist to wonder what skin colour your child will have?
