Objectively Illuminating
A new collection of Bernard Williams’s essays and reviews serves as a reminder of the academic’s restless intelligence
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
When the House Came First
Today’s career politicians could learn a lot from John Biffen, an MP who hated soundbites
Armenian Exceptionalism
Levon Aronian: Armenia's world-title hope
The Kaiser Was No Hitler
In 1914 the German people wanted war no more than the British
Ideas, Please
Far from being 'alien' to young voters, the Conservative party has the scope to become the natural party of the under-25s
Papal Pessimist
Pope Francis should level his criticism at socialism and corporatism, not the free market, in his attempt to help the poor
Freedom to Choose
The authors of a report criticising a new law to tackle forced marriage deploy the worst kind of cultural relativism
Holocaust Amnesia
People who argue that Holocaust Memorial Day is past its sell-by date are wrong. There is still so much to learn from such unprecedented evil
First-Class Humbug
A painting by 19th-century social chronicler Honore Daumier reveals the synthetic outrage and hypocrisy of Bob Crow et al over the third-class-carriage proposals
In Walton’s Footsteps
The second-most frequently reprinted book in the English language is a 350-year-old fishing manual set in a bucolic Tottenham. Haringey never looked so good
The Write Stuff
Is it ever worth the trouble reading journalism whose politics you fundamentally disagree with?
Letting The Right Ones In
'How hospitable will Germans be now that travel restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians have been lifted?'