Lucky Ken
How to ride the feelgood factor to the election
Gore the Bore
I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore
Steyn Power
Iconoclastic commentator — and hate-figure of the Left — Mark Steyn should be celebrated for his refusal to kow-tow to the liberal intellegentsia's consensus
Moscow Martyr
David Cameron's forthcoming visit to the Kremlin should not just be another exercise in deferential "diplomacy"
Euro Soap Opera
Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Trichet recently attended a premiere of Tannhauser in Bayreuth but their own lives are more like an operatic melodrama
Adieu to Claret
The spiralling cost of Bordeaux means the wine will soon be the preserve of millionaires and wine journalists alone
Corbyn’s Trots
Entryism plagued the Labour Party in the 1970s, and is doing so again
Mounting Mendacity
The Palestinian Authority refuses to accept that Jerusalem's Temple Mount is holy to all three Abrahamic religions
Voice Of Dystopia
The Nobel laureate for literature Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the voiceless
Malala’s Real Message
As a 15-year-old British schoolgirl, what struck me about this teenager’s life was that she isn’t a victim, but a role model whose every day is a protest.
Good Copy
The Independent's new masthead is a little too close to home for Standpoint
Margate Rendezvous
For J.M.W. Turner it wasn't only the beauty of the Kentish coast that attracted him, but also that of a buxom hotelier