Model Justice
Obama’s decision to prosecute Khaled Sheik Mohammed in Guantanamo Bay shows even he believes in the efficacy of its military court…
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
No Such Thing
The infamous phrase shouldn't be attributed to Mrs T — it was first coined by David Lodge in his novel, Ginger, You're Barmy
Burke’s Warning
History may remember the Arab Spring's "noble revolutionaries" in the same terms as those of the French Revolution — utopian and doomed to failure
Blundering in the Desert
Book review of Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
No Such Thing
No phrase of Margaret Thatcher caused as much uproar, and was so wilfully misinterpreted, as "There is no such thing as society." As usual with famous quotes, she didn't quite say that,