We Have to be Ready For Anything
The forthcoming defence review must answer our need to be able to face unpredictable threats
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
History’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme
Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?
The Healing Power of Forgiveness
A new project allows crime victims to move on — by pardoning those who attacked them
Git Lit, or: Why Old Age is All the Rage
Men are living for longer than ever and their late-life crises provide a rich seam for the novelist to mine
Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor
The Maestro Of His Own Fate
A fine new tribute explains why Mahler matters more than ever
Clumsy Cherie Cover-up Clarified
The Office for Judicial Complaints has tried to block publication of the news that Cherie Booth QC is to be given "informal advice from a senior judge" about comments she made when
A Classical Education
Inner Temple, one of the four inns of court, has arranged a day of lectures and panel discussions on Saturday about the Greek origins of democracy and "its past, present, and future
A Boy Called Alex: EXCLUSIVE!
You remember Alex Stobbs, the young musician who featured in the Channel 4 documentary A Boy Called Alex and the follow-up A Passion for Life? The films traced his determination, despite suffering
DCLG still using the wrong advisers
It has recently emerged that Mohammad Abdul Aziz, a 'Senior Muslim Adviser' to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) - a department tasked with promoting community cohesion - is an
Britain and Israel “Share Common Legal Values”
Six members of the Israeli Supreme Court flew home this morning after spending a week in London as guests of their British counterparts.
Defend Speed Cameras, Comrades!
The great Bryan Appleyard, surely the most underrated journalist in Britain, has picked up on this Guardian survey of leading Labour thinkers. "Whither the left?" it cried. And the answers were a