Inspiration for a Generation
Anthony Miles, Britain's first chess grandmaster, died ten years ago this November, but not before his talents sparked a UK chess boom
A Star Reborn
In 2004 John Coldstream published a life of Dirk Bogarde so good that no one should ever feel the need to write another one.
The Anti-Elitist Elite Versus the Underclass
The writer and former Tory minister and the political commentator discuss the genesis of the riots with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
“At last, I feel proud to be Libyan”
Under Gaddafi, Libya was plagued by xenophobic attacks. But now its citizens are reveling in their new-found racial freedom
Continental Philosophies
Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Fornication’s Early Years
Review of Rome by Robert Hughes
God Does More Than Make Us Tick
Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Democratic Disenchantment
Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller