Freedom to Choose
The authors of a report criticising a new law to tackle forced marriage deploy the worst kind of cultural relativism
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Holocaust Amnesia
People who argue that Holocaust Memorial Day is past its sell-by date are wrong. There is still so much to learn from such unprecedented evil
First-Class Humbug
A painting by 19th-century social chronicler Honore Daumier reveals the synthetic outrage and hypocrisy of Bob Crow et al over the third-class-carriage proposals
In Walton’s Footsteps
The second-most frequently reprinted book in the English language is a 350-year-old fishing manual set in a bucolic Tottenham. Haringey never looked so good
The Write Stuff
Is it ever worth the trouble reading journalism whose politics you fundamentally disagree with?
Good By Stealth
The media presents Israel as a pariah but its recent efforts to provide aid to Syrian refugees belies its consistently negative image
A Real Arab Spring
Israel’s thriving and very much integrated Arab population confounds the perpetual accusation that it is somehow an 'apartheid state'
Major and Mobility
John Major is wrong. Far from the current Conservative-led cabinet being overwhelmingly privately educated it is in fact the most representative in history
Floreant Drones
Whatever's killing off our bees, it isn't touching our society drones: London private members' clubs are hives of activity
Higher Thoughts
What’s happened to Radio 4's Thought for the Day? An erstwhile spiritual haven has made way for a platform for please-all secularist banalities
Kafka In Istanbul
Last year’s protests in Gezi Park have spurred Recep Tayyip Erdogan into absurd action: now he’s locking up would-be protesters before they have the chance to assemble
Grandiose Coalitions
Far from being democratically sound, grand coalitions foster short-termism and reinforce more extreme parties’ power of veto.