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My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
Yule live to regret this
On seasonal stress
Thanks, but no thanks
Thanks giving in Highgate
Holiday hoo-ha
The trauma of second-home envy
Going nuts
Becoming a food-withholding “almond mom”
Birthday bash
Claudia Savage-Gore frets over how best to entertain a troop of 10-year-olds
Going large
The trauma of body-fat scales
On thin ice
Toxic WhatsApp chats and chalet chauvinism
Strike out
The misery of parents faced with work-shy, striking teachers
Easter angst
Holiday horror looms on the horizon
Most Read
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting