Barmy Weather
Flipping the world on its axis, moon dwellers and giant canons? A new translation of a lost Jules Verne masterpiece of course
Barry Martin
These images are selected from a portfolio of grandmaster chess portraits that I have created over the past six years. Most of the grandmasters
Whose Olympic gold?
The attempt by the Left to present the nation's pride as a new, "post-imperial", patriotism, after the olympics just highlights their hypocrisy and opportunism
Puss in Chains
Throughout the media's coverage of the Kremlin's heinous treatment of Pussy Riot one thing has been shamefully overlooked: their feminism
Uncharitable Thoughts
A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK
A Profligate President
George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he'd acted on this wisdom before the
Pride of the CUP
Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies
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