Scandinavia in slow motion
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a tedious chronicler of his own life
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Civilisation: Do we know it when we see it? He did
The presenter the BBC chooses to remake Kenneth Clark's seminal series has a tough act to follow
Red Pawn
How chess became a tool of totalitarian Communism
Poet of Eternal Summer
Rupert Brooke deserves to be taken seriously
Hitler Humour
Can Adolf Hitler ever really be a figure of fun?
Message in a Bottle
Roger Scruton’s Notes from Underground is a loving portrait of the beauty and desolation of Communist-era Prague Having known Roger Scruton for quite some time, I knew I was in for something
Beards Need Not Apply
The overlooked female contemporaries of Aristotle and Cicero
Funding Extremism
The government is directing millions of taxpayers money to rogue NGOs dedicated to damaging Israel Addressing Israel’s parliament in March, David Cameron assured his audience that he would be working with the
How to Save London’s Skyline
London needs protecting against the current invasion of skyscrapers
The Civilised Connoisseur
With his inherited wealth Kenneth Clark amassed an art collection that reads like a museum catalogue
Holocaust Lessons
An exhibition on Anne Frank details the lessons we should learn from her story, but making the past relevant today is not that simple
Georgians Really Revealed?
An exhibition rightly highlights a much overlooked anniversary but misses some key points about its subject