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Nick Clegg Captures the Mandarins’ Castle

Party-funding and constitutional reform reveal the Whitehall machine playing into the hands—and coffers—of the Lib Dems

November 22, 2011

Constitutional Affairs·Features·UK Politics·Westminster

Eye-witness to the Final Crowning Glory of the Raj

A century ago, my grandmother attended George V’s Coronation Durbar as Emperor of India, an extravaganza worthy of the Moghuls

November 22, 2011

Features·History

Jews, Christians and Judaeo-Christians

The earliest disciples of Jesus were observant Jews, but the story of these Jewish Christians and their distinctive doctrines has been obscured by the Gentile church that supplanted them

November 22, 2011

Features·Judaism

What We Didn’t Know About Boris and Ken

Millions think next year’s London mayoral election is between an amiable Bertie Wooster and a Cockney cheeky chappie. Don’t you believe it

November 22, 2011

Features·UK Politics·Westminster

Mission Creep

Rory Stewart’s new book Can Intervention Work? wants to help politically unstable nations but doesn’t know which way to turn Intervening in the affairs of other countries is always likely to be

October 26, 2011

Counterpoints·Global Governance