Dayan’s Lesson
The great, but flawed, Moshe Dayan understood what the Israeli Left now cannot: that Israelis need a commitment to their security
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Flying The Flag
Anti-patriotic liberals tell us that the BNP has hijacked the Union Jack but they are the only ones that make the connection between the flag and bigotry
A Girl’s Best Friend
The gemstone traders on London's Hatton Garden have witnessed huge changes in attitudes towards marriage, but diamonds are forever
Mother Of All Jokes
Education does not disqualify women from having children, as Dr Lucy Worsley falsely claims; a grounding in the humanities provides the best basis for motherhood
Fashion Victims
The dowdy wives of UK politicians could learn a thing or two from their fashion-forward foreign counterparts
Strike Off the Band
Cowardly Irish folk band Dervish bows to leftist pressure not to play in Israel; now the Jewish state views Ireland as the most hostile member of the EU
Mass Protests
An exhibition at Lambeth Palace reveals how the modern cult of progress prevents its acolytes from appreciating the value of religion
Victorian Bibliophiles
Dickens and Eliot may have longed for the 19th century equivalent of a Kindle, but they also knew when to judge a book by its cover
Latvia’s Lost World
Jean-Paul Kaufmann's A Journey to Nowhere recounts how a student love affair led him to discover Courland, the Latvian peninsula with a troubled history and elusive identity
Au Revoir Les Clercs
It may seem like the French belletrist is a dying breed, but the modern-day public intellectual has always been something of a myth
Regenerate Art
From beneath Berlin's streets archeaologists have unearthed a reminder of Nazi oppression
Bigotry or Dissent?
As dissenters are labelled bigots and homophobes in the same-sex marriage debate; has Britain become too intolerant for free speech?