An Ill Wind
I'd rather have a meatier, hotter and smellier world then give up beefy pleasures in order to reduce cow flatulence
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Tragedy of a Modest Master
A world championship match, held 100 years ago next month, may have been partly responsible for the loser's death
Conversation Stopper
Zoffany, 'the one-eyed German', was one of many masters of a very British sub-genre
Eliot versus Hardy
Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another. It is remarkable that the readers of Hardy's
This is England
‘England is perceived by my Continental friends as being a country that is all about belonging or not belonging’
Montana: Home From Home on the Range
‘I look around the dimly-lit bar and notice how the hard-drinking clientele watches suspicious newcomers like me, with my British-tainted accent and far too many questions. I ask another one: “Do the
What Would Keynes Say?
The most inflential economist of the 20th century still dominates debate about the financial crisis. His biographer Robert Skidelsky and Britain's leading monetarist Tim Congdon discuss the relevance of Keynes
A Bold Voice at a Miserable Time
A new life of Adam von Trott, executed for plotting to kill Hitler, rescues his integrity
How European are the British?
The writer Piers Paul Read's Catholic vision of the EU confronts the politician David Heathcoat-Amory's Eurosceptic case for Britain as an independent country. The discussion is chaired by Daniel Johnson, the Editor
A Macabre New Vision of Spain
The influence of religious sculpture on the Golden Age painters suddenly becomes clear
Deliver Us
New Labour have not only eroded our liberty and destroyed the public finances - they've abused the English language too
Colour Me Angry
As a black Conservative parliamentary candidate, my choice of party is often met with either surprise or sneers “You’re so brave!” is the surprised declaration from people when I, a black woman,