In the magazine this month
December 2009
The Tory leader's Big Society speech promises a revolution. But have we been here before?
At first sight, David Cameron was an eccentric choice to give the Guardian's Hugo Young Lecture last month. Even more startling was the fact that he chose the occasion to make his most important speech on social policy, before an audience entirely drawn from the metropolitan liberal establishment. But the lionising of a Conservative leader by the guardians of the Guardian was firmly based on mutual self-interest.
NICK COHEN
We imagine that the web is a forum for uncensored thought. We couldn't be more wrong
CAROLINE MOOREHEAD
Despite laws, protocols and international conventions, the number of people being trafficked into servitude is growing
GINA THOMAS
A new life of Adam von Trott, executed for plotting to kill Hitler, rescues his integrity
ROBERT SKIDELSKY AND TIM CONGDON
The most inflential economist of the 20th century still dominates debate about the financial crisis. His biographer Robert Skidelsky and Britain's leading monetarist Tim Congdon discuss the relevance of Keynes
DANIEL JOHNSON DOUGLAS MURRAY EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI TIM CONGDON JOSHUA ROZENBERG LIONEL SHRIVER MARA DELIUS MICHAEL BURLEIGH ANONYMOUS FRANCES WEAVER |
NIGEL HAWKES
MARK RONAN
ANTHONY DANIELS
JULIA PETTENGILL
BILL CASH
JAMIE WHYTE
VANESSA NEUMANN
JEREMY HUGH BARON
HAMISH ROBINSON
