Moderation in (Almost) All
Book review of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Magnificent Man’s Flying Machines
Leonardo da Vinci is justly celebrated as an artist, but his scientific inventions did not work
The Anti-Elitist Elite Versus the Underclass
The writer and former Tory minister and the political commentator discuss the genesis of the riots with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
“At last, I feel proud to be Libyan”
Under Gaddafi, Libya was plagued by xenophobic attacks. But now its citizens are reveling in their new-found racial freedom
Continental Philosophies
Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Fornication’s Early Years
Review of Rome by Robert Hughes
God Does More Than Make Us Tick
Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Democratic Disenchantment
Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller
Pevsner’s Monument
Nikolaus Pevsner was the man who catalogued England. His project is well worth another read
Stott’s Gospel
Dishonest and distasteful journalists have co-opted the late, great evangelical Reverend for their own, secular causes
Moscow Martyr
David Cameron's forthcoming visit to the Kremlin should not just be another exercise in deferential "diplomacy"
Euro Soap Opera
Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Trichet recently attended a premiere of Tannhauser in Bayreuth but their own lives are more like an operatic melodrama