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We live in a state of emergency: and we are getting angrier

Britain has lost its identity and its sense of nation, says David Selbourne. The citizen is treated as a mere ‘consumer’, liberty reduced to the ‘freedom to choose’, politicians held in contempt and hostile forces such as Islamism appeased. The stakes could scarcely be higher.

London Notebook

Barry Humphries on life in the capital

‘It’s harder for straights to feel Christian charity than gays’

Theo Hobson meets Gene Robinson, the only openly gay Anglican bishop, who says that homosexuals are more open to the Christian ‘message of radical change’

Don’t expect the cyclone in Burma to have benign political side-effects

Rod Liddle says that there is a natural hope that the interventions of the UN and charities in the disaster-stricken country will open it up. But history does not support such optimism

The hard choices that face the Father of the Mayor

Stanley Johnson is adjusting to his new constitutional position in the life of London: not least deciding which clubs to avoid at lunchtime in order to dodge Boris’s journalist foes

Arts

Homer’s wisdom

The Simpsons (Channel 4); Midnight Man (ITV); World Snooker Championship (BBC2)

Impressions of England

Charles Spencer remembers Sandy Denny

Books

Llamas but no locals

P.J. Kavanagh reviews two books which deal with English community

Grace under fire

Stanley Johnson on two books about exotic animals

Style & Travel

Islands in the sun

Christa D’Souza plans a Caribbean summer

French Lessons

Oscar Humphries learns the hard way

Cameron gets ready for No. 10 — and Boris must wait his turn

David Cameron talks to Fraser Nelson about his local election triumphs, admits that he is not going to ‘agree on everything’ with the new Mayor of London, and says Boris should join the queue to become PM after him

Fraser Nelson

Obama failed this week as well as Clinton

James Forsyth says that Hillary’s disappointment in Tuesday’s primaries is matched by the decline in Obama’s image, as the sheen of the wunderkind fades and doubts multiply

James Forsyth

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