Money Talks
John Lanchester's lesson in financial literacy is blighted by his contempt
Getting On
John Betjeman was a poet who knew how to work society
Major Achievement
Geoffrey Langlands has been deeply committed to education - even in an unstable region
Hawks and Doves
The battle of the birds
Words Matter
'With readership in decline, the German press faces not only a dire economic challenge but an identity crisis'
The Kurds: Israel’s not so Improbable Allies
The secret relationship of Israel and the Kurds
Strange Gods and the Old Devils
They cast their literary spells over a generation, but have Martin Amis and Ian McEwan merit as moralists?
The Enlightenment on Horseback
Andrew Roberts’s account of the life 'Napoleon the Great' is magisterial and beautifully written