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Of course, due to the backlash against the Mayor for his extension of the scheme, he has come up with a fresh, brilliant idea. This is the one that led to my calling his thrilling Ulez extension hotline.

The Founding Fathers were careful to keep religion out of the political realm.

Raymond Carver is best known for his short stories. But his six-line poem asks—and answers—the only question that really matters.

Never rile a Regius professor of theology. That is one takeaway from this magnificent and timely book. Nigel Biggar was a Regius professor and an expert in ethics at Oxford University when that university went through one of the odd periods of iconoclasm that has distinguished the past decade.

So far nobody with any wish for career longevity has tried to assail the National Basketball Association of North America for the distinct predominance of black chaps in their ranks.

It is worth pausing over every murder that goes on in this city. But a brutal killing this week deserves special attention.

Three years before his death, the famous wit penned a poem to a doomed prisoner that became his own epitaph.

‘But Trump…’ is no longer even close to being an adequate response to his son Hunter’s legal woes

Those of us who defended the war (many more at the time) have spent 20 years filled with ‘if onlys’ and agonised attempts to work out where it all went wrong.

“Innocent until proven guilty.” That used to be the old standard with justice. You didn’t condemn a man until he had been found guilty by a jury of his peers. But six years ago, something happened that changed all that.

A FULL quarter of a century ago, ­Londoners were given a vote as to whether or not we wanted a mayor. I voted No.

A. E. Housman spent his life pining for a man who refused him. It was sad, lonely—bleak. But, my God, it was poetry.