Simone de Beauvoir
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Vive la difference
Human reproduction remains unique in the animal kingdom in the intensity of care demanded
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home