Horse Names
The decline of the great literary name
Where are the Don Quixotes and the Anna Kareninas of the modern age?
Game of the name
The naming of horses can be wonderfully inventive
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
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How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation