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Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Reign of Spain
Book Review: The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Rehab for a President
Book Review: Decision Points by George W. Bush
Rhyming Triplets
Book Reviews: New & Collected Poems, by U. A. Fanthorpe; How Snow Falls, by Craig Raine; and Late Poems, by Anthony Thwaite
Old-order Collapse
Australia's performance in the Ashes is symptomatic of the newly-prosperous nation's fixation with consumerism
A Tale of Love, Bulls and Goats
A tribal wedding in Kenya shows that globalisation can be reconciled with the preservation of time-honoured ways of life
The Hounding of M. F. Husain
India's greatest living artist has been forced out of his home country by Hindu sectarian extremists
Will Germany be a Divided Nation Again?
The Turkish-born German sociologist and critic of Islamism Necla Kelek and the classical liberal economist Karen Horn discuss the failure of integration with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson, in Berlin
Five Myths and a Menace
Adam Smith’s invisible hand is lifting us out of recession, but globalisation can be snuffed out again by protectionism
Last Post for a Global Power
Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review is cutting vital parts of the armed forces. It must be changed before events change it for us
Back to Beveridge or Welfare Will Go Bust
Iain Duncan Smith has made a good start on reform but he needs to restore the insurance principle
Warning to the US: Don’t Play by Islamic Rules
The Ground Zero mosque debate shows America, like Britain, pursuing the chimera of attempting to reform Islam