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Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how can I prevent my daughter from getting ‘tweakments’?

Q. My husband has been appointed to a post in Wales and we as a family have moved here for the foreseeable future. My daughter, who is 15, is very...

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Mary Killen

The vintage chef / The extraordinary simplicity of oeuf mayonnaise

‘Sometimes, in the search for originality, the most obvious dishes are forgotten,’ says Elizabeth David, the doyenne of cookery, in her book...

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Olivia Potts

Real life / Attention, waiters: it’s not about you

‘Something I like to do with all my tables is ask what brings you here today?’ said the young waiter as he sat us down and began to talk. If I’d...

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Melissa Kite

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how can I prevent my daughter from getting ‘tweakments’?

Q. My husband has been appointed to a post in Wales and we as a family have moved here for the foreseeable future. My daughter, who is 15, is very...

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Mary Killen

Real life / Attention, waiters: it’s not about you

‘Something I like to do with all my tables is ask what brings you here today?’ said the young waiter as he sat us down and began to talk. If I’d...

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Melissa Kite

What really terrifies me about Reform in No. 10

Reform in No. 10? As the prospect gets more likely, the hand-wringing gets more theatrical. Should Reform somehow form the next government, we are...

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Gareth Roberts

How classic car meets are revving back to life

It’s all-too easy to get bogged down in the never-ending list of reasons that owning a car in the UK is a hellish endeavour. Whether it’s the...

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Lino Buckingham

No, we don’t all need therapy

Only the most heartless fantasist would deny the life-saving role that therapy plays in helping people manage mental illness. Some people, of course,...

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Zoe Strimpel

Vegan cheese is repulsive

I’m one of those gobby vegans who will happily tell anyone why they should stop consuming animal products. But I can still admit what’s obviously...

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Chas Newkey-Burden

Will Downing Street name the ideology behind anti-Semitism?

There’s a case for arguing that this has been the worst year for Jews in Britain since Edward I ordered their expulsion in 1290. This sense of...

yesterday 9

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Paul Stott

WATCH: the world’s first robotic assault on an enemy position

WATCH: the world’s first robotic assault on an enemy position

The world’s first fully robotic assault on an enemy position was, of course, captured on video by a drone hovering above.President Volodymyr...

yesterday 9

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Ben Clerkin

No, Russia is not on the verge of a coup

However much Western leaders inveigh against Russian disinformation (which, yes, is a real issue), we should never pretend this is not a two-way...

yesterday 10

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Mark Galeotti

Britain is facing an Islamist insurgency

Britain is facing an Islamist insurgency

The recent horrific attack in Golders Green has generated much anger and despair at this latest in a series of concerted, violent assaults currently...

yesterday 10

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Simon Diggins

Venezuela has become another American puppet state

Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, never enjoyed the charisma or genuine popularity of his predecessor, “El Comandante” Hugo...

yesterday 10

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Niko Vorobyov

Russia is running out of workers

Russia is running out of workers

Vladimir Putin likes good statistics. At a government meeting on 15 April, even as he acknowledged that growth was slowing, he pointed proudly to...

yesterday 8

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Alexander Kolyandr

No, Russia is not on the verge of a coup

However much Western leaders inveigh against Russian disinformation (which, yes, is a real issue), we should never pretend this is not a two-way...

yesterday 10

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Mark Galeotti

Empire / Did European rule in Asia and Africa really make colonised people poorer?

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did European rule in Asia and...

yesterday 7

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Tirthankar Roy

Britain is facing an Islamist insurgency

Britain is facing an Islamist insurgency

The recent horrific attack in Golders Green has generated much anger and despair at this latest in a series of concerted, violent assaults currently...

yesterday 8

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Simon Diggins

Election / The Tories are on the verge of a surprise Westminster comeback

Four years ago, the unthinkable, for many Westminster residents, happened. Control of the council was won for the first time ever, and convincingly,...

yesterday 10

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Mary Dejevsky

Child's play / Is Reform brave enough to be a pro-family party?

Nigel Farage told Radio 4 this week that he had ‘made a mistake’ in trying to pursue pro-family policies, concluding that this is simply...

yesterday 10

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Joe Shalam

Prove it / AI is revolutionising mathematics

Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a lifetime: he solved a...

yesterday 10

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Ananyo bhattacharya

Zack Polanski must dream of Athens’s radical democracy

A Greek essayist c. 420 BC argued that Athens’s radical democracy, giving the vote to every adult male citizen, resulted in the poor having total...

yesterday 10

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Peter Jones

Potholes could pave the way to victory for Reform

When I was young and green and working as a gossip columnist, I learned much from the energy and enthusiasm of my colleague Lady Olga Maitland. Long...

yesterday 10

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Sam Leith

AI is revolutionising mathematics

Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a lifetime: he solved a...

yesterday 8

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Ananyo bhattacharya

Venezuela has become another American puppet state

Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, never enjoyed the charisma or genuine popularity of his predecessor, ‘El Comandante’ Hugo...

yesterday 10

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Niko Vorobyov

Did European rule in Asia and Africa really make colonised people poorer?

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did European rule in Asia and...

yesterday 6

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Tirthankar Roy

The martini is making a comeback

In P.G. Wodehouse’s Cocktail Time (1958) the characters are frequently ‘lapping up martinis like a vacuum cleaner’. Wodehouse was living...

yesterday 10

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Ameer Kotecha

MAHA must resist purity tests to survive

The Make America Healthy Again movement has already accomplished more in its first year than many reformers dared to hope. Major food companies are...

yesterday 10

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David mansdoerfer

Is barbecue a noun or a verb?

Memorial Day is approaching, the traditional kickoff for the American barbecue season – or for grilling season, depending on where you are in the...

yesterday 10

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Robert f. moss

Americans think they want the ‘real Ireland’. They don’t

Americans think they want the ‘real Ireland’. They don’t

As the first Americans of the season got out of their car I scrunched up my face and groaned. ‘They’re all like that, remember?’ said the...

yesterday 10

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Melissa Kite

Sunday shows round-up: Labour minister attacks ‘disgusting’ Polanski

The Prime Minister has said he is considering a ban on some pro-Palestine marches, and wants ‘tougher action’ on certain phrases used on those...

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Joe Bedell-Brill

Rise of the machine / We are closer to AI extinction than we think

A spectre is hanging over humanity: the spectre of superintelligent AI. While governments busy themselves with the mundane work of politics and...

previous day 10

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Andrea miotti

Scotland / How to silence Scottish nationalists

It’s been the favourite gotcha question put forward by supporters of the SNP and the Scottish Greens at hustings events and TV debates throughout...

previous day 8

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John Ferry

The case that shows jihadism is for losers

If anyone needs proof that jihadism is for losers, they need only look at the case of Abdullah Albadri. He was found guilty yesterday at the Old...

previous day 10

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Jonathan Sacerdoti

Is Reform brave enough to be a pro-family party?

Nigel Farage told Radio 4 this week that he had ‘made a mistake’ in trying to pursue pro-family policies, concluding that this is simply...

previous day 10

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Joe Shalam

Russia is running out of workers

Russia is running out of workers

Vladimir Putin likes good statistics. At a government meeting on 15 April, even as he acknowledged that growth was slowing, he pointed proudly to...

previous day 8

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Alexander Kolyandr

Bottle job / We need to talk about your water bottle

Why does everyone in Britain carry water bottles these days? On a dog walk in London a few days ago, a friend asked – with genuine concern –...

previous day 10

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Sam Merullo

Scotland / How to silence Scottish nationalists

It’s been the favourite gotcha question put forward by supporters of the SNP and the Scottish Greens at hustings events and TV debates throughout...

previous day 10

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John Ferry

Politics / Seven things to look out for as Britain heads to the polls

Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one year and 300 days, which puts him 43rd in the list of Britain’s longest-serving prime ministers....

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Tim Shipman

Our new ambassador’s ‘Washington Gaffe’

It’s hard not to feel sorry for Christian Turner, our new ambassador in Washington. He’s only been in post three months, yet he’s already had to...

previous day 10

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Freddy Gray

The Tories are on the verge of a surprise Westminster comeback

Four years ago, the unthinkable, for many Westminster residents, happened. Control of the council was won for the first time ever, and convincingly,...

previous day 10

The Spectator

Mary Dejevsky

How to silence Scottish nationalists

It’s been the favourite gotcha question put forward by supporters of the SNP and the Scottish Greens at hustings events and TV debates throughout...

previous day 10

The Spectator

John Ferry

Do women really need breast reductions?

When I became wheelchair-bound at the end of 2024, the biggest change I had to deal with was not being able to walk any more on my lovely long legs....

previous day 10

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Julie Burchill

We are closer to AI extinction than we think

A spectre is hanging over humanity: the spectre of superintelligent AI. While governments busy themselves with the mundane work of politics and...

previous day 10

The Spectator

Andrea miotti

We need to talk about your water bottle

Why does everyone in Britain carry water bottles these days? On a dog walk in London a few days ago, a friend asked – with genuine concern –...

previous day 9

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Sam Merullo

Inside the Killhouse: where Ukraine’s revolutionary military robots are developed

The Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle rolled up to a small bunker hidden in a thicket in Kharkiv oblast then stopped. Another remote-controlled...

previous day 10

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Ben Clerkin

Olly Robbins’s next move

Olly Robbins’s next move

This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for an Order in Council to kill it off by 9 a.m....

saturday 10

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Charles Moore

Mental health is an inauthentic crisis

Mental health is an inauthentic crisis

When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we have to accept that being...

saturday 10

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Patrick West

Spoils system / The Democrats’ race-based regime is collapsing

The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Louisiana v. Callais et al has inevitably drawn strong criticism. In ruling that electoral districts...

saturday 9

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Daniel Mccarthy

The price of fame / Lena Dunham is still her own worst enemy

In her seminal 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion writes of her former self, a 20-year-old naif arriving in New York City for the first...

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Clare Mchugh