It Could Be Worse
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Prodigal Brother
The Rage Against God: Why Faith is the Foundation of Civilisation by Peter Hitchens
The Poetical Mollusc
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks
Men From the Ministry
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd
We’ve Been Here Before
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
Political Classes
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
Kaliningrad: Russia’s Outpost in Europe’s Heart
"It is almost impossible to believe this misery was once a beautiful German city known as Königsberg, where Kant thought, Herder wrote and Prussia began"
Havana: The Castros Will Not Be Absolved
"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is taking hold"
Desperately Needing Susan
The Royal Institution has made a huge mistake by sacking its media-friendly director
Six of the Best
A list of recommendations that no chess library should be without
Great Dane
The work of Christen Købke is relatively unknown outside his native land. More's the pity
Palestine’s Tragedy
The recent Israeli Apartheid Week shamefully neglected Zionism's complaisance to peaceful co-existence