Wealth of Rubbish
Why do so many rich capitalists have a penchant for collecting anti-capitalist art?
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Rivers of Babylon
The great provocateur - Joan Rivers
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
Is art therapeutic?
Alain de Botton tries to personalise the museum experience — but instead trivialises great historical ideas
Digital Civilisation?
Two summer exhibitions present differing visions of civilisation
School Daze
When you and your former schoolmates' views and values have drifted far apart
Gross Indecency
It is not right for David Marquand to claim that British society has capitalism has humiliated Britain
Delenda Est?
Why must so many wars be refought?
New Greek Myths
Frustration for the Greeks romanticism
Texting Gove
We have a long way to go before our children get the kind of education they deserve