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The path out of the pandemic is under our noses

Vatican II was a flop. Get over it.

Secret, unaccountable rule

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Lebanon is trapped in a nightmare of its own making

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The case against organic food

The uncomfortable truth about the Nazis and the Olympics

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It’s a vivid example of unintended consequences that the swimming-pool builders of southern England should owe so much to Sir…

I wonder if the moral guardians of our country — the England football team — intend to participate in the…

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It’s one of the most tantalising travel images in the world — a felucca floating along the Nile at sunset,…

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The QAnon conspiracy theory may be absurd, but it can’t be ignored. It has already led to significant acts of violence, says Damian Thompson

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What is it like to go mad? Not so much developing depression or having a panic attack — which is…

For eight years I rented a small house in Oxford overlooking the canal. The landlord, a poet and novelist younger…

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Sunjeev Sahota’s novels present an unvarnished image of British Asian lives. Ours Are the Streets chronicles a suicide bomber’s radicalisation,…

It was once a favourite theory of optimistic drunkards that a suitably ‘moderate’ level of alcohol consumption provided covert health…

In 2002 I was living in Berlin. One day my upstairs neighbour Peter told me he had just returned from…

Mountains are humanity’s most comforting topographical feature. Wherever you find them you will also find those who have flocked to…

What a time of captivity, what a time of plague. The Disney musical Frozen, long delayed by the mammoth Melbourne…

Art is supposed to emerge from poverty but extreme wealth does not preclude talent, as the history of composers proves. By Richard Bratby

Not one, but two British films this week, one that’s only being screened at the cinema (if you’re brave enough)…

Lady Sylvia is a gorgeous aristocrat whose hand is sought by the charming Dorante whom she has never met. To…

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Malcolm Arnold composed his opera The Dancing Master in 1952 for BBC television. It never appeared, the problem being the…

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It used to be that sporting endeavour was regarded as a noble cause, and that our sporting pastimes were governed…

Talking to Peta Credlin on Sky News I coined a new expression, ‘language communists’. I used to call the bullies…

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You would need a digger to explore the levels of irony in a Springbok chief slagging off an opponent’s dirty…

Q. My beloved wife has been studying Chinese metaphysics for 18 months. Our house and garden have been badly neglected…

‘Oh, yes,’ said my husband, enthusiastically, ‘a loathsome disease. The tongue goes black and dry.’ He was referring to an…

Before the television presenter Guto Harri took the knee live on air — which cost him his job at GB…

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The nouns from the first sentence of a book (in the ODQ) appear as unclued lights — apart from two.…

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In a game between top players, the opening moves signify not only the battleground they have embraced, but also the…

We arranged to meet the second, more expensive, guide of our Somme battlefield visit at the Thiepval Memorial visitor centre…

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In Competition No. 3208, you were invited to submit a recipe for marital bliss on behalf of an author of…

The scaffolding pole across the public footpath led to a farcical conversation with the local council. I had been walking…