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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
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RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation