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Features

My real focus group scorned climate change

James Delingpole asks second world war re-enactors what they think of the green agenda: the answer is very different to the consensus around the pine tables of metropolitan London

Britain cannot afford a failed Pakistan

Elliot Wilson says that the near-collapse of the Islamic state should focus minds in this country, which is inextricably linked to Pakistan. Its implosion would stoke extremism here

The loss of health visitors is a true scandal

Susan Hill recalls how much she relied on her health visitor and bemoans the decline of this once-universal service: the victim of bureaucratic ‘targeting’ and government ignorance

Who put a sock full of cocaine in my drawer?

Venetia Thompson, who has never taken the drug, was shocked to discover a stash in her house. What to do? Her friends’ response was a collective shrug as if it were nothing unusual

The Republicans are where the Tories were in 1997

This is bad news for the Conservatives, who have always feasted on US right-of-centre ideas, says James Forsyth. But the GOP can learn from the Cameroons

Arts

Russian revenge

James Delingpole looks back on recent TV broadcasts

Communication breakdown

Kate Chisholm looks back on recent radio broadcasts

Books

‘The college of God’s gift’

Dulwich College: A History, 1616-2008, by Jan Piggott

Put a brave face on it

It’s official: make-up is recession-proof, says Lindy Woodhead

In a rich man’s world

Peter Grogan on Britain’s last remaining ‘private bankers’

Want to cut taxes? First cut spending. Here’s how

After a week of clamorous competition between the parties over tax cuts, Fraser Nelson offers a guide to paying for them: a programme of spending cuts that would preserve core services but shave off the fat of the Brown years. All that is needed is political will

Fraser Nelson