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The swallows that herald spring
Sweet lovers, Shakespeare reminds us, love the spring. How can they not? All that wonderfully wanton colour, all that sensual…
What does it really mean to be British today?
After years of estrangement in a foreign land, what can immigrants expect to find on their return home? The remembered…
What Europe thinks
Details of the Project 28 poll 28,000 respondents from 28 EU countries (1,000 per country) Phone interviews EU28…
Europe should follow Britain’s lead on refugees
When a humanitarian tragedy disappears from our newspapers, there are two possibilities: that the crisis is over and life for…
A story of three bears — and what it means to be human
In Yoko Tawada’s surreal and beguiling novel we meet three bears: mother, daughter and grandson. But there will be no…
A Roman emperor’s inauguration to rival Donald Trump’s
Given that Donald Trump is not the most popular president the USA has ever seen, even among his own party,…
The hateful whispers that make me want to move from London to Tel Aviv
It’s time I left London’s anti-Semites behind
The purgatory of passport control – and why it’s about to get worse
Passport control? It’s more like purgatory
‘Donald’s always been the outgoing one’: meeting the Trump parents
I have never met Donald Trump, but I knew his parents. A fact that makes me feel about 100 years…
Through the Sahara to the Jungle: a migrant’s tale
Why would a migrant cross the Sahara, Libya, the Med and most of Europe in a quest to reach Britain? I asked one
The woman who could win when Angela Merkel can’t
The German chancellor risks defeat if she does not stand aside
How Sweden became an example of how not to handle immigration
We’ve taken in far too many people and we’re letting them down badly – especially the children
Could we win back Gordon Brown’s gold at the Olympics?
Golden years How many Olympic events would Team GB have to win before we could earn back the gold reserves…
Italy’s migrant purgatory
The car park near Dante’s tomb is full of the young menwe have encouraged to flee to Europe for a better life
I’m a Remainer. But if I was working-class in Stoke, I’d be for Leave
A rational vote Sir: There has been a lot of bile poured out about those who voted Leave by the…
300 signatures can be wrong. How about 2 million?
Name check 306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside…
Why Britain (and Europe) depends on migrants
It’s not about economics. It’s about our snobbish, slobbish culture
Britain’s determination to kill itself makes my blood boil
Gstaad The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong…
Could a change of body language make a difference to American policing?
One of the most shocking items of recent news has been the bald statistic that the number of people shot…
Angela Merkel will survive – but will the soul of post-war Germany?
The migrant crisis is testing the country’s post-war idea of itself
Merkel’s grandstanding on Syrian refugees will lead to many more deaths at sea
By making them more likely to attempt the perilous journey to Europe, the German chancellor is luring would-be migrants to their deaths
Cameron’s talking to the wrong Libyan government. He should call my old driver
Certainly not the government that Cameron hopes will help fix the migrant crisis. He’d be better off talking to my old driver
Mykonos has turned into hell (I still blame Jackie Kennedy)
The wind is maddening and constant, and gets stronger as the sun falls below the horizon. The streets are lined…
If you really want to help refugees, look beyond the Mediterranean
It’s lazy and wrong just to focus on the migrants who make it here
Eritrean migrants face many dangers. Are we one of them?
A few weeks ago someone very dear to me passed on a question about The Spectator, asked them by a…
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