The Surge is Working — So Far
Official voices are unwilling to claim victory, but Nato forces in southern Afghanistan are defeating the Taliban
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
St Gilbert of Fleet Street
Book Review: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton selected by Bevis Hillier
The Test of Character
Book Reviews: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; and Sunset Park by Paul Auster
High Priest of Poetry
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
2010 and All That
Book Reviews: Crown and Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy by David Starkey; and The Story of England by Michael Wood
Decision Time for Barack Obama
After his mid-term ‘shellacking’, the President has a choice: Clintonian pragmatism or the ideological purity of the Left
The Frau is for Turning
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel at first dismissed, then embraced Thilo Sarrazin’s attack on multiculturalism
The Kids are Not All Right and I Am Angry
Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party conference, this teacher explains her change of mind
Wanted: A Keynesian Vision for the Arts
The Arts Council started with a tiny budget and a mandate to lift the postwar gloom. Now this meddlesome quango has lost its way and its chair, Liz Forgan, must go
The Costly New Idea of a University
With tuition fees about to triple to make up for the withdrawal of state funding, it is time to reread Coleridge, Bentham and Mill
Gangs, Girls and Grooming: The Truth
Asian pimps in the North get away with rape as police run scared of being branded racist
Earwicga and the pieties of the Left
‘Earwicga' is a blogger on Pickled Politics and a very angry woman. In the comments thread to a piece written by Sunny Hundal she has bizarrely taken to calling me ‘dishonest'. Later,