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Sea change
China has its sights on the Bay of Bengal
A diplomatic silence
How Boris should handle the US election
Better together
The new Scottish Tory leader – and his familiar sidekick
London in limbo
The capital is the motor of Britain’s economy. It needs to get moving again
The Great Yarmouth Hippodrome
Guess which theatre is the first to open to the paying public post-Covid? Not Lloyd Webber’s London Palladium, where small…
Age of the Econian
The public school elite who rule the wokerati
Shades of Joe
What should the world expect from a President Biden?
Tear gas Ted
The mayor manning Portland’s barricades
Boomer and bust
Covid-19 is fast-forwarding us into retirement
The influence game
Why do we still struggle to see Xi’s China as a threat?
Stone cold facts
Scotland’s statues attest to a history buried under sentimental nationalism
Hope in Iraq
Why the US assassination of Iran’s top general didn’t spark a war
747s
I felt a genuine pang when British Airways announced that it was retiring its fleet of Boeing 747s, the largest…
Tough love
Covid has changed the dating game
Luck of the draw
Cartoonists are facing ever-tougher competition
Seeing red
Why should I have to wear a mask to give blood?
Wolf at the door
Britain has a critical role to play in taming China
Unleash chaos
How Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
Goodbye, Lebanon
The country is collapsing
Royal Notebook
Not since the befuddled twilight of George III has a monarch been confined to Windsor Castle for such a duration.…
Trick or treat
The pros and cons of being hacked
The lost boys
Britain’s forgotten demographic
Greco-Roman wrestling
Can the Classics escape the grip of their past?
Mugs
Rishi Sunak found himself in hot water last week, though fortunately it was not too hot. Just the right temperature,…
Beyond belief
It’s a mistake to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
