Strange young things
Why are so many Conservative activists so noxious?
France’s civil war…
...and the struggle facing Europe
Loneliness and the love of friends
When Hugh and Mirabel Cecil’s book In Search of Rex Whistler was published in 2012, the late Brian Sewell reviewed…
Europe’s ever-looser union
Europhiles have warned us for years of the dangers of Britain leaving the EU. But all the while a different…
Europe’s ever-looser union
Europhiles have warned us for years of the dangers of Britain leaving the EU. But all the while a different…
Death watch
If you don’t think legalising ‘assisted dying’ is a slippery slope, you haven’t been paying attention
Despair springs eternal
The left is always eager to be told that capitalism’s final crisis is upon us – and it is always disappointed
Florence
The British have always been in love with Florence. First visits cannot disappoint. One friend recalls being herded around as…
Florence
The British have always been in love with Florence. First visits cannot disappoint. One friend recalls being herded around as…
Doctors’ orders
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, keep fit, die young
Smash Isis now
Assassinate its leadership, destroy its sense of destiny
The people from the sea
Encounters with those who have risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean
The Plame game
Scooter Libby’s conviction looks ever shakier – and a sign of the deep problem with America’s special prosecutors
‘The truth is hard’
Roger Scruton on why we’re losing the battle for western civilisation
‘We’ll get out of this alive’
An interview with Helle Brix, who was at the meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday when the shooting happened
The dangerous lie
Despite what our leaders tell us, Islamic extremism is all about Islam
Thrown to the lions
Why are we abandoning Christians to Isis?
Let the right ones in
It is the easiest thing in the world to say who should come to Britain and why. But if there…
Arguments with God
Former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the return of religion to public life and the civil war that Islam needs
A long goodbye
Clive James on poetry, civilisation and the critical benefits of facing leukaemia
The British beheaders
Why we lead the West in exporting jihad
Murder porn
It’s time to stand up against the self-righteous sharing of videos of beheading and other gruesome violence
Where have all the leaders gone?
No one wants to pay the price of speaking for the free world
Sorry state
One by one our great institutions have tumbled
Save the children
When will we stop the Islamists trying to control the minds of a generation of pupils?
