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Retirement savings are being frittered away on jobs for the boys

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Don’t fund universities that don’t respect free speech

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Impeaching the president after he leaves office is unconstitutional

Bad history and Biden’s roots

Navalny’s return to Russia is brave – and provocative

The problem with pop psychology

The man behind the Archbishop

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The Wimborne Militia of Dorset prides itself on being the only formally commissioned ‘private army’ in England. We’re well known…

The welcome return of the gaffe-prone president

Who profits from Uyghur labour camps?

The challenges ahead for President Biden go beyond governing

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Bad service Economic growth fell by 2.6% in November, the month of the second lockdown, compared with falls of 7.3%…

Paradise lost Sir: After reading Jonathan Beswick (‘Critical mass’, 16 January) I am writing to express the shame I feel…

Diversity is ‘about empowering people by respecting and appreciating what makes them different, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, religion,…

Home The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September.…

At the start of the Covid-19 crisis, Chris Whitty often made the point that a pandemic kills in two ways:…

‘Postcode lottery!’ people scream when one area feels less well treated than another in a public service — in this…

Has the coup happened yet? You have the advantage over me. It was supposed to have taken place on Sunday.…

The government’s most important economic policy is its vaccination programme. The speed at which people are immunised will determine when…

On the Wednesday in early July when Rishi Sunak announced a temporary increase from £125,000 to £500,000 in the stamp…

Here’s a trick question: who said the following, and when? ‘Serious questions have arisen about the accuracy and reliability of…

There’s something creepy about the way we call Donald Trump fans a cult, then watch them hungrily, hoping they’ll do…

Robert Tombs’s new book is not long: 165 pages of argument, unadorned by maps or images. But brevity is good,…

Viv Groskop takes a masterclass in the art of the short story

The surroundings of the Crimea Memorial Church in Istanbul are ‘little better than a dump’, wrote the British embassy chaplain…

Of the handful of things we can establish about Willis Wu, the protagonist of Charles Yu’s second novel, the most…

Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is back. This is a York novel, or rather a Yorkshire crime novel. The LNER railway…

Those who best remember Dr Anthony Clare (1942-2007) for his broadcasting are firmly reminded by this biography that we didn’t…

Karachi, Pakistan’s troubled heart, is known to cast a seductive spell over residents and visitors alike. In Karachi Vice, the…

This is a big book about a minor painting — a double portrait of John Bankes, aged about 16 (the…

After the death of George Floyd last year, and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests around the world, racism is…

Making one’s fortune in Occupied Paris was largely a matter of knowing the right people: in fact, the further to…

Slowly, after what seemed like infinite, malingering delays, virus-driven, the world of arts and entertainment is starting to open again…

We were all excited to be there.  You would have thought that we hadn’t been to an opera performance.  Well,…

Grade: A-   The greatest songwriter of the 20th century, or just one of the top two or three? Who…

In my parents’ house, the radio is always tuned to one of two stations: Magic FM and LBC. When Magic…

The White Tiger is adapted from the Booker-prize winning novel (2008) by Aravind Adiga. It is directed by Ramin Bahrani…

Flight has been hailed as a new form of dramatic presentation — prefab theatre. It’s great to look at. A…

Brexit and Covid have pushed us out of the common musical market and thrown us back on homegrown sprouts. Good, says Norman Lebrecht

‘What the world needs now is a black and white pastiche of classic 1950s and 1960s sitcoms reviving two Marvel…

When I dice a chilled cucumber along with a couple of tomatoes, toss them together in a bowl with a…

Have we flogged the word ‘spirit’ to death? Or, rather have politicians, emptied it of all meaning and turned it…

White to play. Howell — Adams, Caplin Hastings Online 2021. Adams’s last move, 35…Ba4-b3, gave Howell the chance for a…

In discussing the German low-life cant called Rotwelsch, Mark Glanville (Books, 9 January) referred in passing to Polari, ‘the language…

In Competition No. 3182 you were invited to rewrite a famous piece of light verse with a dirge-like, hieratic tone…

The Corbin & King dining and home entertaining box includes dishes from the Delaunay, the Wolseley and Brasserie Zédel ‘delivered…

The winners The first prize of £100, three prizes of £25 and six further prizes of Word Perfect by Susie…

Q. Following the birth of our child we were deluged with cards, gifts and money from kind family and friends.…

Alan Bond was a rogue and a rich man, in every way your typical Aussie larrikin. In 1983 he bankrolled…

I heard the shocking news last week that one of my oldest friends — Richard Edwards — had died suddenly…

Gstaad This might surprise a few people, but I was very friendly with our late co-proprietor Sir David Barclay, a…

The unclued lights are all words of a kind arranged into anagrams (all are confirmed in Chambers: one is a…

The Hastings International Chess Congress hasn’t skipped a year since the second world war, so I was delighted to learn…

When lockdown began, all those months ago, I remember chatting to a few of England’s top players about the shift…

Here, as in Britain, everyone is a log expert. The woodman leaves a heap at the bottom of the drive…

Not long after he took on a smallholding for his cobs, the builder boyfriend found a couple walking through his…

Doing good doesn’t always work out as expected. A regular entering his local pub takes pity on an old lady…