ONLINE Only: Ankara’s Proxy
"Why would a country that is both an ally of the United States and Nato as well as an aspiring member of the European Union brazenly declare its solidarity with a terrorist
Tajikistan: In Search of the Yeti
'The Tajiks are unnervingly friendly. They take the Islamic injunction of hospitality with grave seriousness. The hungry often sacrifice their only cow for a backpacker with a camera, and the regime has
Has Britain Found a Role Yet?
The leading historians Professors Norman Stone and Jeremy Black discuss how this country might recover its once unique contribution to Western civilisation with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson
Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor
Do the Times Require a Conyers Middleton?
He is an 18th-century deist with a message for today's aggressive atheists: religion has a social value, and saves us from the return to a Hobbesian state of nature
Trevor-Roper and Gibbon: A Tale of Two Historians
Hugh Trevor Roper was the greatest historical stylist of the 20th century. Yet he never produced a masterpiece to rival that of his great hero and predecessor, Edward Gibbon
Nabokov in Berlin
'Perhaps tying works of art to their originating topography is vulgar and needs to be kept discreet. But history needs Nabokov. During the artistically formative years, he lived here in the 1920s
Labor Omnia Vincit
Teaching Latin in primary state schools may be the answer to decling standards in literacy
Plane Crazy
The recent air space shutdown has highlighted that only mad dogs and Englishmen would acquiesce to the aural torture of living under flight paths
Park and Ride
The Olympic juggernaut has trampled over any local council objections to its project. Now it looks like it will do the same to Greenwich Park