Playtime is Over for Governors
Who will want to volunteer to sit on school boards in the harsh new education climate?
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Melancholy Monuments of Chivalry
From Cyprus and Anatolia to Rhodes, the Levant’s castles bear witness to the struggle for supremacy between East and West
Decision Time for Barack Obama
After his mid-term ‘shellacking’, the President has a choice: Clintonian pragmatism or the ideological purity of the Left
The Frau is for Turning
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel at first dismissed, then embraced Thilo Sarrazin’s attack on multiculturalism
The Kids are Not All Right and I Am Angry
Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party conference, this teacher explains her change of mind
Wanted: A Keynesian Vision for the Arts
The Arts Council started with a tiny budget and a mandate to lift the postwar gloom. Now this meddlesome quango has lost its way and its chair, Liz Forgan, must go
The Costly New Idea of a University
With tuition fees about to triple to make up for the withdrawal of state funding, it is time to reread Coleridge, Bentham and Mill
Gangs, Girls and Grooming: The Truth
Asian pimps in the North get away with rape as police run scared of being branded racist
ONLINE Only: Refugees ad infinitum
The unique reality for many Palestinians living in Lebanon is that their refugee status has become hereditary
ONLINE Only: The Thin Blue Line
If Lebanon's unprovoked attack on an Israeli maintenance team was premeditated, it points to something darker on the horizon
ONLINE Only: Why Pick on Israel, Mr Cameron?
Britain should support Turkey's European ambition. Criticising Israel's policy on Gaza is not the way to do it
ONLINE Only: Time to Stop Pawning the Palestinians
By hijacking the Palestinian cause, the non-Arab world has perpetuated the conflict for its own regional standing. The Arab world must reclaim it There was a time when it was accurate to