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Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
Fun and danger at the Fair
‘I need antique fairs like a junkie needs a needle’
The frock du jour
Joining the dots in search of the The Dress
Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
Nutkin’s Law
Why we should all eat squirrel
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Rebel Rouser
Titania joins Extinction Rebellion
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety