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Dark arts
Welcome to the world you created, J.K. Rowling
Office romance
Why would anyone want to work from home?
Home advantage
Not going to school was the making of me
Macron’s new sidekick
Is France’s latest prime minister just another fall guy?
Letter from Texas
Austin My first Independence Day in the US for many years. Usually I’d be in Paris avoiding Texas heat. My…
Cricket balls
The Prime Minister recently blamed the delay in the resumption of amateur cricket on the ball itself, calling it ‘a…
The Covid conundrum
How strong was the scientific advice behind the lockdown?
Thinking strait
After Hong Kong, is Taiwan China’s next target?
Moving mountains
Donald Trump is fighting back against America’s historical revisionists
Dangerous addiction
Britain’s dependence on quantitative easing is alarming
The magic money tree
Big spending. Huge debts. What can possibly go wrong?
Plan to fail
How was Britain so ill-prepared for a pandemic?
Rewiring the state
Covid has revealed what is wrong with Whitehall
Power putsch
This is no leftist revolution
Online chess
How have you been filling these listless homebound hours we’ve been given by the government? I’ve been frittering them away…
Author’s Notebook
From the balcony where I take my daily exercise there is a view of the commercial centre of London that…
A whole new deal
If Boris wants to channel Roosevelt, he should end lockdown
Winging it
We won the Battle of Britain – just
False colours
Do we really want to re-racialise society?
The controversy paradox
The less something is a problem, the more people talk about it
Sorry state
The private school advantage has never been greater
Defund the police
Forces have become too politicised to function
Football without fans
Football is back — but the fans aren’t. Covid means that clubs have to play their games behind closed doors.…
Battle lines
The art of corona warfare
Cop out
To save black lives, top brass must face reality






























