The Times Companion to 2017: The best writing from The Times
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
Meritocracy is the last thing Britain needs — Philip Collins
Jeremy Paxman: ‘I’m not ashamed to say I’ve suffered depression’ — Interview by Janice Turner
Bataclan: one year on — Adam Sage
You can’t trust the people with democracy — Roger Boyes
Burnt and tortured migrants filled decks as we rushed to help — Bel Trew
‘Tantrums and shocking racism’ of inquiry’s dysfunctional dame — Andrew Norfolk, Sean O’Neill
Middle-aged virgins: Japan’s big secret — Richard Lloyd Parry
Royal family are more secretive than MI5 — Ben Macintyre
Inside Britain’s only transgender clinic for children — Louise France
A bare-knuckle fighter in the bloodiest contest ever — Rhys Blakely
Let’s stop being so paranoid about androids — Matt Ridley
Game’s soul is not at Lord’s. It is here — Mike Atherton
Confessions of a middle-aged man — Jonathan Gershfield
Terrible teaching is what makes Oxford special — Giles Coren
Children killed in Duterte’s drug war — Richard Lloyd Parry
Cash belongs in the past so let’s abolish it — Ed Conway
Wild swimming is a rare splash of freedom — Edward Lucas
Children of the internet are happy to live a lie — Oliver Moody
How I conquered my morbid fear of flying — Melanie Phillips
Year of revolution — Leading Article
The NHS is in need of emergency treatment — Janice Turner
The hedgie with a 99.9% success rate — Harry Wilson
Are you tough enough for ‘radical candour’ at work? — Helen Rumbelow
Our week: everyone — Hugo Rifkind
Tourist exodus leaves gigolos hungry for love — Jerome Starkey
Big brands fund terror — Alexi Mostrous
Being offended is often the best medicine — David Aaronovitch
Our magical Wembley moments — George Caulkin
Spinal column: I keep seeing the ghost of Melanie past — Melanie Reid
Scraps, storms and trench hand all in a 23ft boat — Damian Whitworth
We all need to learn how to talk about death — Alice Thomson
What’s a nice Asian boy doing in a place like this? — Sathnam Sanghera
Giving birth is a lethal gamble in Venezuela — Lucinda Elliott
Chuck Berry was a political revolutionary — Daniel Finkelstein
On Westminster Bridge — Leading Article
It’s time to reclaim our rights from big tech — Iain Martin
Our addicts turn blue, then they die: the town at the centre of new US drugs epidemic — Rhys Blakely
This is the end of democracy, cry protesters as nation splits in two — Hannah Lucinda Smith
Drought casts the shadow of death — Catherine Philp
Nepal is back: ancient temples, mountains and Bengal tigers —Tom Chesshyre
Le Pen can be president if she plays the long game — Giles Whittell
Duke retires rather than grow frail in public — Valentine Low
Landslide for Macron — Charles Bremner, Adam Sage
Giving a voice to the lost girls of Rochdale — Andrew Norfolk
Queer City by Peter Ackroyd — Review by Robbie Millen
Watch out — here come the Bridezillas — David Emanuel interviewed by Hilary Rose
The 10 worst crimes in horticulture — Ann Treneman
Shock poll predicts Tory losses — Sam Coates
Investors priced out by the bank — Alistair Osborne
Election 2017 — Leading Article
Saved by friends from across the water — Patrick Kidd
US banned tower cladding — Alexi Mostrous, David Brown, Sean O’Neill, John Simpson, Sam Joiner
Food and service in a time machine — Giles Coren reviews Assaggi
