Window Brothels Get the Red Light
The experiment is over. After 12 years of legalised prostitution organised crime in Amsterdam has risen, not fallen.
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Boris’s 2020 Vision
By 2018 David Cameron will be ready to step down leaving the way clear for the London Mayor to swap City Hall for Number 10
Blair Baiting
A website, arrestblair.org, is offering cash rewards to anyone who attempts to apprehend the former PM. Interested, Desmond Tutu?
M. Flanby’s Holiday
French president François Hollande seems to find monogamy too bourgeois for his tastes but all these former lovers are proving de trop
Blind Ambition
In the wake of the Paralympics, a new biography celebrates the life of our greatest disabled serviceman: Horatio Nelson
Taking a Liberty
The financial crisis has produced a new wave of young libertarians but these radicals champion freedom over and above virtue
Hops and Glory
The revelation that Obama's White House brewery is using Kentish hops shows America's changing attitudes to cask ale
Barmy Weather
Flipping the world on its axis, moon dwellers and giant canons? A new translation of a lost Jules Verne masterpiece of course
Whose Olympic gold?
The attempt by the Left to present the nation's pride as a new, "post-imperial", patriotism, after the olympics just highlights their hypocrisy and opportunism
Puss in Chains
Throughout the media's coverage of the Kremlin's heinous treatment of Pussy Riot one thing has been shamefully overlooked: their feminism
Uncharitable Thoughts
A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK
A Profligate President
George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he'd acted on this wisdom before the event