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Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
Birthday bash
Claudia Savage-Gore frets over how best to entertain a troop of 10-year-olds
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
Unenticing overtures
Rautavaara: 3rd piano concerto (Bis); Overtures from Finland (Chandos)
Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Jumping to conclusions, twice
Morality matters as well as the law
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
Cops, guns and judges
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on firearms officers means
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries