Bowled Over
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places In 1895, Winston Churchill, then a journalist covering the
Our Island Stories
A new book by Harry Mount attributes the particular, phlegmatic character of the English to the nature of England itself
Metro Madrassa
Final orders called at London Metropolitan. How far will a university go to mollify an intolerant minority?
Jihad Central
As Robert S. Leiken argues in his brilliant new book, Britain's lost confidence in nationhood has made it the centre of European jihadism
A New Yorker Writes
Anthony Daniels has said he likes living in foreign countries. He has lived in several of them. For one thing, a foreign country's problems
Bouquets and Barbed Wire
Orlando Figes's Just Send Me the Word conveys the enduring love of a couple whose incarceration in Stalin's gulags couldn't suppress
Truths Stranger Than Fiction
Lionel Shriver's new novel brilliantly describes the problems of on-the-spot reportage, a journalistic difficulty negotiated deftly in two recent books about The Troubles
Never a Dull Verse
Clive James's new collection of poetry looks at his past but is far from mournful nostalgia; it celebrates his eventful life