ONLINE ONLY: A Green Light for the Opposition
As the anniversary of the Iranian revolution approaches, the opposition movement is gaining momentum
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Powerful Attraction
A new British-pioneered nuclear reactor can help cut our reliance on fossil fuels
Will the Tories Give us the Schools We Deserve?
The Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Michael Gove, and the former Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, discuss the Conservatives’ reform plans with Daniel Johnson, the Editor of
The New Sophistry
‘Entertaining the reader is now the main goal of criticism’
Blond’s Encyclical
The policies of Phillip Blond, David Cameron's 'philosopher king', are confused and wooly
Towers of Silence
Swiss women struck at the minarets because, with the stifling dominance of liberal discourse, it's impossible to strike at anything else
Experts and Axioms
When politics has entered the scientific debate over climate change, how can we trust the experts? Is the world getting hotter, and are humans responsible? Two questions there, and I don’t know
Civil Society
Civility has become the new political buzz word, but its meaning has been distorted to suit the left-liberal consensus Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary contains some lovely lines. One of them, as I learned
Friend to the End
The experience of a dying friend shows that nursing home staff can prove to be good friends in death It’s many years since I was a monk and thus a professional in the death
Seductive Pursuits
Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie and Best Seat in the House by Frank Johnson
So Different From the Poetry
The Letters of T.S. Eliot — Volume 2: 1923-25
Spare the Thumbscrews
The Italian Inquisition by Christopher F. Black