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Yesterday evening, I was pleased to attend an event held to mark the publication of the new book by Melanie Phillips, which forms the basis of her feature in this month's magazine.

After the fiasco of Popstar to Operastar, the BBC is having a go at finding an opera star of the future. Dame Kiri leads the procedings and the winner gets to sing

Newman's Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell

Revolution Muslim, a US-based extremist organisation, has issued death threats against Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the makers of animated sitcom ‘South Park', after their latest episode which satirised the ongoing hysteria

Earlier this week, a newly founded jihadist media group, the al-Balagh Islamic Centre, released an interview with Siraj Haqqani, leader of the Haqqani Network, a Taliban group operating in eastern Afghanistan. It

I was hoping to bring you all the insider gossip, VIP handshakes and general Good Guys of Music World backslapping from the BBC Music Magazine Awards at Kings Place yesterday. These awards

Well, given the contortions in modern liberalism, Amnesty's abandonment of universal human rights was always likely. In the 2000s I wrote that Amnesty was becoming equivocal about political violence, torture, racism and

As Brown goes to the Palace, the opinion polls remain as helpful as ever. Last night one for ICM suggested a hung parliament, while another for YouGov suggested a comfortable Tory victory.

"I probably underestimated how resistant some people would be to anyone presuming to think they had anything new to offer..." Juliana Farha, founder and MD of Dilettante Music, was one of only

Congratulations to Alexander McCall Smith, who was called to the Scottish Bar yesterday. Now best known for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series, McCall Smith was professor of medical law at