Super Mario
A brilliant writer with remarkable political gifts, Mario Vargas Llosa is a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Politics of Envy
That Howard Jacobson and V. S. Naipaul are non-members of the London literary establishment does them credit
China’s Great Firewall
The "Golden Shield Project" is blocking access to great swathes of the web, but Chinese netizens are fighting back
See No Evil
The "independent inquiry" into the radicalisation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at UCL was a pathetic embarrassment
Hegemony 101
Antonio Gramsci's great theory has cropped up in an unlikely place — the A-level geography classroom
Ethics Girl
A bookshelf of Tracey Emin's personal favourites throws up a notable surprise
Flouting (Not Flaunting) the Rules of English
The teaching of grammar should be at the heart of the school syllabus. Without it we are killing intellectual curiosity
Incurable Romantics
The historian Tim Blanning and the critic Jonathan Bate discuss the place of Romanticism in contemporary culture with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson