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The Times Companion to 2017: The best writing from The Times
Ian Brunskill
A year of political upheaval, sporting thrills, and continuing global conflict. The Times Companion to 2017 is a selection of authoritative and entertaining writing on politics, war, culture, sport and current affairs from the world’s most famous newspaper.No dry chronicle of daily events, it brings together some of the best articles – and photographs and graphics – published by The Times between September 2016 and August 2017. In a lively mix of news features and reportage, profiles and interviews, opinion columns and expert analysis, The Times’ award-winning journalists tell the stories behind the headlines of a remarkable year.
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CONTENTS
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Title Page (#u95a6b109-aa99-564b-8e23-5d59d97e1508)
Copyright (#ulink_56f97b7d-6f6c-5037-893c-0ca5246d8652)
Introduction — Ian Brunskill (#ulink_15a8cc22-6e42-59bc-9818-7312a07558e3)
Acknowledgments (#ulink_cd85c837-3e3e-55a0-8363-5c61731cad72)
AUTUMN (#ulink_f8018ab0-6842-59bf-abde-7e9d20bc1d70)
Meritocracy is the last thing Britain needs — Philip Collins (#ulink_cae9237c-2fb1-5462-8056-a493d1c62f0a)
Jeremy Paxman: ‘I’m not ashamed to say I’ve suffered depression’ — Interview by Janice Turner (#ulink_1d8fdb94-35f4-5533-bd2b-028985539196)
Bataclan: one year on — Adam Sage (#ulink_0a8b4705-0ea6-5111-8645-27ba49dde38f)
You can’t trust the people with democracy — Roger Boyes (#ulink_0ada2856-5ebf-5d35-bcaf-af845b895492)
Burnt and tortured migrants filled decks as we rushed to help — Bel Trew (#ulink_4669e91c-7829-5347-9df7-8a5458a657f8)
‘Tantrums and shocking racism’ of inquiry’s dysfunctional dame — Andrew Norfolk, Sean O’Neill (#ulink_0b5e428f-9cfa-5f46-8a86-d6ef0889c72f)
Middle-aged virgins: Japan’s big secret — Richard Lloyd Parry (#ulink_4b993533-d1c8-5b5b-b7fd-aa37f590da57)
Royal family are more secretive than MI5 — Ben Macintyre (#ulink_767898dc-0f6e-5f94-b99d-030c9d535b42)
Inside Britain’s only transgender clinic for children — Louise France (#ulink_a61af42b-7555-5269-9785-06a08fc4eab6)
A bare-knuckle fighter in the bloodiest contest ever — Rhys Blakely (#ulink_6a03658f-75f8-5dc5-ba39-c4d6cc89a7cc)
Leonard Cohen — Obituary (#ulink_06d1f97c-fb5f-5939-bc24-7229bb9b7bd1)
Let’s stop being so paranoid about androids — Matt Ridley (#ulink_64698a8b-15a7-5794-898b-32b2b79e2b9e)
WINTER (#litres_trial_promo)
Game’s soul is not at Lord’s. It is here — Mike Atherton (#litres_trial_promo)
Confessions of a middle-aged man — Jonathan Gershfield (#litres_trial_promo)
Terrible teaching is what makes Oxford special — Giles Coren (#litres_trial_promo)
Children killed in Duterte’s drug war — Richard Lloyd Parry (#litres_trial_promo)
Zsa Zsa Gabor — Obituary (#litres_trial_promo)
Cash belongs in the past so let’s abolish it — Ed Conway (#litres_trial_promo)
Wild swimming is a rare splash of freedom — Edward Lucas (#litres_trial_promo)
Children of the internet are happy to live a lie — Oliver Moody (#litres_trial_promo)
How I conquered my morbid fear of flying — Melanie Phillips (#litres_trial_promo)
Year of revolution — Leading Article (#litres_trial_promo)
The NHS is in need of emergency treatment — Janice Turner (#litres_trial_promo)
The hedgie with a 99.9% success rate — Harry Wilson (#litres_trial_promo)
Are you tough enough for ‘radical candour’ at work? — Helen Rumbelow (#litres_trial_promo)
Our week: everyone — Hugo Rifkind (#litres_trial_promo)
Tourist exodus leaves gigolos hungry for love — Jerome Starkey (#litres_trial_promo)
Big brands fund terror — Alexi Mostrous (#litres_trial_promo)
Being offended is often the best medicine — David Aaronovitch (#litres_trial_promo)
Our magical Wembley moments — George Caulkin (#litres_trial_promo)
Spinal column: I keep seeing the ghost of Melanie past — Melanie Reid (#litres_trial_promo)
SPRING (#litres_trial_promo)
Scraps, storms and trench hand all in a 23ft boat — Damian Whitworth (#litres_trial_promo)
We all need to learn how to talk about death — Alice Thomson (#litres_trial_promo)
What’s a nice Asian boy doing in a place like this? — Sathnam Sanghera (#litres_trial_promo)
Giving birth is a lethal gamble in Venezuela — Lucinda Elliott (#litres_trial_promo)
Chuck Berry was a political revolutionary — Daniel Finkelstein (#litres_trial_promo)
On Westminster Bridge — Leading Article (#litres_trial_promo)
It’s time to reclaim our rights from big tech — Iain Martin (#litres_trial_promo)
Our addicts turn blue, then they die: the town at the centre of new US drugs epidemic — Rhys Blakely (#litres_trial_promo)
This is the end of democracy, cry protesters as nation splits in two — Hannah Lucinda Smith (#litres_trial_promo)
Drought casts the shadow of death — Catherine Philp (#litres_trial_promo)
Nepal is back: ancient temples, mountains and Bengal tigers —Tom Chesshyre (#litres_trial_promo)
Le Pen can be president if she plays the long game — Giles Whittell (#litres_trial_promo)
Duke retires rather than grow frail in public — Valentine Low (#litres_trial_promo)
Landslide for Macron — Charles Bremner, Adam Sage (#litres_trial_promo)
Giving a voice to the lost girls of Rochdale — Andrew Norfolk (#litres_trial_promo)
Queer City by Peter Ackroyd — Review by Robbie Millen (#litres_trial_promo)
Watch out — here come the Bridezillas — David Emanuel interviewed by Hilary Rose (#litres_trial_promo)
The 10 worst crimes in horticulture — Ann Treneman (#litres_trial_promo)
Shock poll predicts Tory losses — Sam Coates (#litres_trial_promo)
SUMMER (#litres_trial_promo)
Investors priced out by the bank — Alistair Osborne (#litres_trial_promo)
Election 2017 — Leading Article (#litres_trial_promo)
Saved by friends from across the water — Patrick Kidd (#litres_trial_promo)
US banned tower cladding — Alexi Mostrous, David Brown, Sean O’Neill, John Simpson, Sam Joiner (#litres_trial_promo)
Helmut Kohl — Obituary (#litres_trial_promo)
Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill: how civil servants lived in fear of the terrible twins at No 10 — Oliver Wright, Francis Elliott, Bruno Waterfield (#litres_trial_promo)
Food and service in a time machine — Giles Coren reviews Assaggi (#litres_trial_promo)
Sovereign wealth — Leading Article (#litres_trial_promo)
The primitive lost society of love island — Ben Macintyre (#litres_trial_promo)
Small acts of kindness that can save a life — Libby Purves (#litres_trial_promo)
People thought I was mad to offer my spare room to a homeless stranger — Alexandra Frean (#litres_trial_promo)
Pocket money, phone, rambo knife — Rachel Sylvester (#litres_trial_promo)
The Dunkirk myth never told our real story — David Aaronovitch (#litres_trial_promo)
My career’s in reverse and I couldn’t be happier — Emma Duncan (#litres_trial_promo)
Puppy love — Caitlin Moran (#litres_trial_promo)
The conservatives are criminally incompetent — Matthew Parris (#litres_trial_promo)
Justin Gatlin reminds us that sport is not a fairytale — Matt Dickinson (#litres_trial_promo)
Starting nuclear war is president’s decision alone — Rhys Blakely (#litres_trial_promo)
‘We’ll never be able to stop the hunger for revenge here’ — Anthony Loyd (#litres_trial_promo)
Photo Section (#litres_trial_promo)
