A Game of Consequences
Those advocating an increased separation of Church and State at root espouse a malleable consequentialism
Assassin in a Hijab
Roshonara Choudhary's attack on MP Stephen Timms is an example of a growing trend of small-scale, individually-planned terrorism
Seat Cheats
The enormous hidden costs of low-cost air travel are symptomatic of a disturbing cultural shift
Idée fixe
Fiction portentously predicts reality in Anthony Trollope's dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia
Bring On the Bugs
Is one solution to our current financial quagmire to chow-down on creepy-crawlies?
Grade Expectations
Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, may appeal to ambitious parents. But tough love-style child-rearing can only lead to Chinese burn-out
Transit Camp
While celebrity transvestites are much adored in Turkey, their everyday counterparts are the subject of hostile abuse on the streets of Istanbul Beneath the towering domes of Hagia Sophia and the Blue
School Meal Deal
The Deprived Pupil Premium — the eligibility criterion for two years' free university tuition — favours the work-shy and discriminates against working single parents
Romanticising Rosa
The Left must abstain from lionizing the life and work of the Polish-born German Marxist martyr, Rosa Luxemburg
Old Despots’ Home
Exiled tyrants need no longer fear: a luxurious afterlife awaits them in a club for failed dictators George Washington put his money into British government stock, and the Bank of England paid