On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Johannesburg: Hard Pressed
'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom
The Misfit at No 10
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler
It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us
Instead of embarking on the project of "saving God" by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need
Connoisseur of Fraud
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
How the West was Invented
Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
Launching Pad of the Neocons
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint
Old Men Don’t Forget
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read and Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
ONLINE Only: Refugees ad infinitum
The unique reality for many Palestinians living in Lebanon is that their refugee status has become hereditary
ONLINE Only: The Thin Blue Line
If Lebanon's unprovoked attack on an Israeli maintenance team was premeditated, it points to something darker on the horizon
ONLINE Only: Defending the Birmingham Three
Just weeks ahead of Benedict XVI's visit, the Birmingham Oratory is guilty of profound institutional cruelty in its treatment of three banished former members
ONLINE Only: Why Pick on Israel, Mr Cameron?
Britain should support Turkey's European ambition. Criticising Israel's policy on Gaza is not the way to do it