Glorious Summer
When it comes to summer festival opera, Britain tends to get it right
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Tearing Down History
Cecil Rhodes was racist but his life needs to be historically contextualised, not simply attacked
Their Man In London
What do we really want from our security services?
Email Etiquette
Emails are a sphere of communication which is crying out for the imposition of regular form
Chelsea Haven
The architecturally eccentric church of St Simon Zelotes provides unexpected peace
Gaza Withdrawal Symptoms
Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza has left lasting bitterness
How Olympian Was Renaissance Man?
Leonardo is seen as the presiding genius of his age, but his drawings reveal a reassuringly human artist
The Cold Warrior Who Enjoys The Fight
Henry Kissinger was often compared to Machiavelli but Niall Ferguson shows he was, at heart, an idealist
Subverting The Superpowers
Efraim Karsh's book on the creation of the modern Middle East is timely but overstates his case
From Octavian To Augustus
Jochen Bleichen's biography of the Emperor is monumental but highly readable
New York Survival Story
How the New York Public Library weathered a near-death experience
Caught In The Web
Why is security online so hard to achieve? Edward Lucas's Cyberphobia argues that we are more at risk online than we realise