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Red handed / Clean up the MoD graffiti!

Mary Wakefield has narrated this article for you to listen to. When I first saw the Ministry of Defence building splattered in blood-red paint, I...

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The ‘luxury beliefs’ that harm vulnerable children

Now that everyone insists that the oppressed must be lifted up – or platformed, if you’re that way inclined: why does no one in the West give a...

04.04.2024 9

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Mary Wakefield

Slave to the screen / How to cure your phone addiction

Somehow, I’ve lost the ‘Light Phone’ that I bought to replace the dumb phone that I hoped would break my addiction to the iPhone. The Light...

07.03.2024 9

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Post-truth / When trans rights trump babies’ rights

There are a fair few trans women – men who want to be seen as ladies – who long to breastfeed real babies, and some who actually give it a good...

22.02.2024 6

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For dog’s sake / XL Bullies deserve to be banned

Sometimes the realisation that you’ve been completely wrong for decades creeps up on you slowly, and at other times it’s a revelation, a light...

08.02.2024 10

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Snooping with love / Is it wrong to track my child?

One evening a few weeks ago, I was pottering about alone when I became aware of a feeling of great relief, of joy almost, without quite knowing why....

25.01.2024 4

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Cracked / The US opioid crisis has come to Britain

‘Never do drugs, you’ll be hooked instantly,’ my mother used to say, and though I nodded, I never even considered paying attention. So I don’t...

11.01.2024 1

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‘The culture of complaint disgusts me’: Werner Herzog on walking without a backpack and the kindness of strangers

When the American director Errol Morris saw Werner Herzog’s film Fata Morgana for the first time, he was heard to mutter: ‘I didn’t know anyone...

14.12.2023 6

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Civil silliness / The real reason the civil service needs reform 

Just as Francis Maude was revealing his exciting plans for grand reform of the civil service, I received a message from a friend who once worked in...

23.11.2023 5

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Slave to the screen / Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?

Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now they’re depressed and...

09.11.2023 1

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Mother of all decisions / I regret not having more children

Life doesn’t always work out perfectly. You can make the wrong decisions. You can leave things too late. I wish, though I’m not distraught about...

12.10.2023 3

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Cautionary tale / Mexico’s progressive hell

Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has written for him and which it has...

14.09.2023 7

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