ONLINE Only: An Important Distinction
Islam isn't Islamism — but Muslims are too quick to defend extremists
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Hayek Top Slot Shock
In spite of his reputation, Glenn Beck is introducing huge audiences to high-brow political and economic ideas Television exposure can turn an unheard-of and undeserving book into a bestseller. But could even
Buried History
The war efforts of thousands of allied Muslim soldiers in the two World Wars points to our shared heritage
Adieu to Claret
The spiralling cost of Bordeaux means the wine will soon be the preserve of millionaires and wine journalists alone
It Took a Village
A taxi driver eavesdrops on a conversation between two of Chelsea Clinton's wedding guests
Labor Omnia Vincit
Teaching Latin in primary state schools may be the answer to decling standards in literacy
Come Back, Trollope
Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one
Bent’s Beautiful Mistress
The Magnus Carlsen phenomenon has a precedent: that of the marauding Viking, Bent Larsen
Journo Listless
‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’
Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca
'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice to the severity of this calamity and its
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work
Johannesburg: Hard Pressed
'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom