COLUMNS
January/February 2012
'It is true that certain faiths, ideologies and cultures make submission the supreme virtue, while the civilisation that emerged from Athens, Rome and Jerusalem has cherished liberty in all its forms'
January/February 2012
'Backward-leaning leftist populism is on the rise. All the old slogans of the 1980s — "Tory scum" and so on — are making a return'
January/February 2012
'It is only when one tries to do good that one discovers just how many people will try to prevent one's sucess'
January/February 2012
'Muslim anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that embarrasses Western liberal intellectuals and confounds their anti-Israel sentiment'
January/February 2010
This isn't just any bureaucracy, this is M&S bureaucracy: Miriam Gross was told by the high street giant that she needn't worry about her lost card. That's when she should have started worrying.
January/February 2012
'The eurozone shambles has been the worst setback for European integration since the 1940s'
January/February 2012
'The Lord Chief Justice paused, looked up at the glassy-eyed MPs and peers, and said: "If this is difficult, believe me, I am finding it so too".'
January/February 2012
'Like so many once pig-ignorant artsy types, I'm now conversant with credit default swaps, bundled securities and derivatives'
November 2011
‘Forty years after the 1971 Immigration Act, the numbers arriving are unprecedented. We need a breathing space’
July/August 2010
'The interests of Germany and Europe are the same: Germany should leave the euro'
January/February 2012
'History books will provide sustenance in the dark months (and even darker times) ahead'
January/February 2012
'Germans are obsessed with paying taxes - they are affronted by any state with little or not taxation - such as the British Virgin Islands'
January/February 2011
Life in Birmingham as a vicar’s wife opened our Mole’s eyes to what has become of Britain’s second city
November 2010
Cyber-activism spreads quickly and reaches many, but the lack of risk involved means it is largely superficial
November 2009
Impact Foundation Bangladesh funds a floating hospital which provides treatment to remote villages
March 2011
New columnist Saintsbury relates the tale of Christmas Eve in Jane Austen's Emma — but which wine did Mr Elton employ in his quest to warm the heroine's heart?
November 2011
Minkowski enabled Einstein to supersede Newton. Today’s scientists must emulate them
January/February 2012
The unheralded Kazakh Rashid Nezhmetdinov was universally admired by his peers for his astonishing attacking ferocity
January/February 2012
For Jonathan Swift, a medicinal hogshead was the perfect measure of wine
January/February 2012
