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When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
