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Next time you need a doctor, go to China

Tessa Keswick

12th March, 2008

Tessa Keswick marvels at the quality of care she received in Beijing when she found herself unable to walk. Painful though it was, the acupuncture was cheap and highly effective

The BBC White Season only shows how little Auntie has really changed

Rod Liddle

12th March, 2008

Rod Liddle says these tokenistic programmes demonstrate that the BBC’s view of the vast majority of people in this country remains appallingly patronising. The Corporation has not renounced its bad old metropolitan ways at all

A diplomat who could yet be the British Obama

Tim Walker

12th March, 2008

Paul Boateng, our man in South Africa, dismisses comparisons with the American presidential contender. But Tim Walker says he has unfinished business in Westminster

No sleep till Denver: Hillary, the unlikely underdog, takes it to the wire

James Forsyth

5th March, 2008

Once the shoo-in candidate, Senator Clinton has re-invented herself and forced Obama to bear the heavy burden of frontrunner. This race could go all the way to the convention, says James Forsyth — which will keep a smile on the face of John McCain

Water, Prozac, management consultants: all completely useless

Rod Liddle

5th March, 2008

So many of the things we are told to do are a total waste of time or money, says Rod Liddle, who has just completed a failed two-year course in water-drinking to make him a better person

If God proved he existed, I still wouldn’t believe in him

Martin Rowson

5th March, 2008

Martin Rowson just doesn’t buy the ideology that comes with God. Even a personal appearance by the Almighty wouldn’t do the trick, he says

Beware the politician posing as a scientist

Christopher Booker

5th March, 2008

Christopher Booker squares up to Sir David King, the former Chief Scientist, whose knowledge of chemistry does little to underpin his crusading rhetoric as a green campaigner

It is not US Marines who should be on trial

Nick Broomfield

5th March, 2008

The acclaimed film-maker Nick Broomfield reflects on the making of his film on the bloody battle for Haditha, and the reconciliation he witnessed between US soldiers and Iraqis

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Intelligence Squared debate report - "Britain should have a referendum on the EU Treaty"

Lloyd Evans

6th March, 2008

Lloyd Evans reports on the latest Intelligence Squared debate

Made in Sweden: the new Tory education revolution

Fraser Nelson

27th February, 2008

Fraser Nelson reports on the radical Swedish system of independent state schools, financed by vouchers, that has transformed the country’s education performance and is now inspiring the Conservative party’s dramatic blueprint for British schools: to set them free

Charlie does surf. Meet the new wizard of the web

Matthew d'Ancona

27th February, 2008

Charles Leadbeater tells Matthew d’Ancona about the riches to be mined from online collaboration — and says that the Conservatives have a chance to launch a new form of politics

The real tributaries of Enoch’s ‘rivers of blood’

Robert Shepherd

27th February, 2008

Forty years after the notorious speech, Robert Shepherd explores its origins — Powell’s fear of Indian ‘communalism’ and his views on the US race riots

Boris’s most brilliant wheeze to date was the letter to the Guardian attacking him

Rod Liddle

27th February, 2008

Rod Liddle salutes the genius of the Tory mayoral candidate in sending a spoof petition condemning himself and praising Livingstone to the skies to the Left’s in-house newspaper

A scholar who dares to look terror in the face

Douglas Murray

20th February, 2008

Douglas Murray talks to the historian Michael Burleigh about his new book on the culture of terrorism and the West’s craven reluctance to confront the nature of the threat

The biggest tent of the lot: to stop Blair becoming EU President

Rod Liddle

20th February, 2008

Rod Liddle says that the former Prime Minister has pulled off an astonishing feat: uniting Left and Right, Europhiles and Eurosceptics, people of all nations and creeds, online and
in print, in their glorious campaign to prevent him becoming President of Europe

Castro’s Cuba was no place for a socialist like me

Neil Clark

20th February, 2008

Neil Clark says that he went to Havana in search of a left-wing Utopia and discovered instead an island fortress of poverty, corruption and currency apartheid

Obama is an Othello for our times

Venetia Thompson

20th February, 2008

White men only pretend to admire the presidential contender, writes Venetia Thompson. Beneath their supposed approval lurk primeval racist fears of the black ‘super-male’

Israel is getting ready to invade Gaza

Lorna Fitzsimons

20th February, 2008

Lorna Fitzsimons talks to senior sources and concludes that, with heavy hearts, the Israelis are set to mount a military takeover of Gaza — a step that will leave the talks nowhere

Pakistan needs more than elections. Only a new political class will do

Stephen Schwartz

13th February, 2008

Stephen Schwartz says that, in this failing state, the ballot box is also a tinderbox. Even if Monday’s election goes ahead, Pakistan might well end up in a worse state than before: exporting terror, spawning confrontation, at war with itself

Britain just got Weller: meet the Jam Generation

Anne McElvoy

13th February, 2008

Anne McElvoy talks to the politicians reared on the 1980s music of the Jam: post-Cold War, disenchanted with state monopolies, and cagey about Class A drugs