Maths Moves in Mysterious Ways
The shapes and patterns of Nature have some surprising explanations
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Silvio’s House of Cards
‘Italy's real problem isn't Berlusconi's private affairs. Rather, the problem is the culture he now represents. ’
Castles of the Imagination
From Wales to Syria, fortresses are monuments to an age of chivalry — but some are only castles in the air
Speaking Truth Unto the BBC
Charles Moore, one of the BBC's most trenchant critics, discusses its future with its former chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, and the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
Berlin: Empty Elections
‘This reunification generation of Germans is sick of coalition government but equally dissatisfied with the alternatives on offer’
Upwardly Immobile
The best way to give working-class children a better chance in life is to offer education vouchers
Of Human Frailty
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
Ripping Yarns
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Do we really need another history of the Second World War? That’s the question that immediately comes to mind on picking up Andrew Roberts’s weighty
In Love with His Public
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater
Henry the First
Kissinger's Year: 1973 by Alistair Horne
Bad Luck with the Weather
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper, Lives in Art by Frances Spalding
The Character of Englishness
Dr Johnson, the greatest writer of critical prose in the English language, was able to impart to his readers both human nature in general, and the character of Englishness in particular