Belonging with Britain
‘Maybe the British stance is not born out of an insular stubbornness-it may, on the contrary, re-invigorate the European idea itself'
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Genius from the Bike Factory
Albin Planinc, the tragic Slovenian
Musical Testosterone at the Proms
William Walton was inspired by sexual energy
The Controversy of Cornelius Gurlitt
The case of the art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt provides illuminating insights into the German character
Red Pawn
How chess became a tool of totalitarian Communism
Poet of Eternal Summer
Rupert Brooke deserves to be taken seriously
Hitler Humour
Can Adolf Hitler ever really be a figure of fun?
How to Save London’s Skyline
London needs protecting against the current invasion of skyscrapers
Antediluvian Ark
An extraordinary cuneiform tablet has provided a mine of information about pre-biblical flood legends
The Right Need Not Be Repulsive
In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin investigates the origins of Left and Right and finds solutions for the problems facing American conservatives today
Armenian Exceptionalism
Levon Aronian: Armenia's world-title hope
The Kaiser Was No Hitler
In 1914 the German people wanted war no more than the British