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Natural health service
Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat
Walk, don’t run
‘If I can get them walking the editors and staff of The Critic will be demonstrating with Extinction Rebellion in six months’
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
The heir to Dave
This is the first election since Macmillan that the Tories are headlining on increasing the size of the state
Labour’s plan to turn back the clock on education
Corbyn proposes the most significant transferral of power back to town halls for more than a generation
Britain’s dismal choice
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn make this election a hold-your-nose-and-vote contest
Who won the party leaders’ Question Time?
The PM came on one-and-a-half hours into the interrogation, by which stage some may have tuned out