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My brush with a royal literary crisis
The past week has seen another media splash about the self-exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Following the recent ruckus…
Turning the tide: how to deal with Britain’s new migrant crisis
How Britain can stem the stream of illegal arrivals
Why do anglers get so hooked?
The other day a friend asked me what a lascar was. Fair enough: it’s not a word you come across…
The troubling truth about Britain’s nuclear deal with China
The troubling truth about Britain’s nuclear deal with China
The ‘alpha migrants’ are here – why don’t we let them work?
They’re bright, brave – and could help solve our labour crisis
The disappearing man: who was the real John Stonehouse?
Craig Brown describes his various encounters with the MP who notoriously faked his own death in 1974
Party time: the price of freedom
Party time depends on following the party line
Sajid Javid: My isolation diary
You always remember when a prime minister calls you to ask you to take on a new role, and you…
My 46 days on the road with John Woodcock
Although it was a miracle that he survived until a few weeks before his 95th birthday, the death of John…
Organic food isn’t better for us – or the environment
The case against organic food
Playing with fire — did QAnon start as a cynical game?
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
The uncomfortable truth about the Nazis and the Olympics
The uncomfortable truth about the Nazis and the Olympics
The unsettling sensation of a full diary
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant was officially launched last week, with a splashy press call in the Raphael Court of…
Rhodes to redemption: why Oxford needs a monument to Benjamin Jowett
Not since September 1642, when a mob of Parliamentary soldiers opened fire on the sculpture of the Virgin Mary carved…
Football’s never coming home
I failed a moral test last weekend. A friend offered me a free ticket to the Euro 2020 final and…
Cuba libre: why Cubans have reached breaking point
Havana There is an astonishing patience in the Cuban people, born of endless waiting. When a store has, say, chicken,…
Nanny Boris: the PM’s alarming flight from liberalism
Has Covid killed the PM’s liberalism?
The US tech companies behind China’s mass surveillance
Tom Miller describes how Xinjiang became a laboratory for China’s mass surveillance system – built with the help of US tech companies
The UK’s immigration figures are a fantasy
Journalists filing to deadline are apt to dig only so deep when googling for statistics, which in themselves are sometimes…
A lesson in understanding serial killers and child molesters
True crime is having a moment: every day there’s a new documentary, book, podcast, or blockbuster film announced, detailing the…
Return to LA Confidential: Widespread Panic, by James Ellroy, reviewed
Even by James Ellroy’s standards, the narrator of his latest novel is not a man much given to the quiet…
The true cost of theatre closures
It turns out that if there’s one thing more expensive than making theatre, it’s not making it. Empty buildings haemorrhage…
Angela’s ashes: Merkel is leaving the EU in chaos
Merkel is leaving the EU in chaos
The sexploits of Mariella Novotny
Orgies! Gangsters! Drugs! Spies! Scandals! This biography promises much but I’m not sure it actually delivers, or not in any…
Doctor Butcher: crank, genius or son of Frankenstein?
I hated reading this book. Not only was it objectively upsetting, as any book describing monkey vivisection would be (I…
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