Even as we were putting the finishing touches to our editorial last week, in which we ‘joined the dots’ between…

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

The Australian National University’s ‘ethical’ dumping of $16 million in Australian resource stocks last October has progressed from ‘stupid’ (as…

Four months in Washington D.C., interning on Capitol Hill sounded pretty good to a kid who was addicted to The…

The media can defeat the Islamists’ terrorising threat tofree speech by themselves

When will the Left understand there is no religious equivalency with fanatical Islam?

Welcome to the Venn diagram of Islamist terrorism

It's time for Muslims to take a stand. Egypt may be showing the way

To face Islamist terror, we must face the facts about Islam's history

Neither they, nor their religion, stand accused. But nor, for all our sakes, can they stand aside

I know it could all be over by springtime. But I think this time I’ll stay

To judge by the story of the little ice age, there will be decades of terrible suffering before we adapt

The Archbishop of York on immigration, poverty and persecution

It’s the simple pleasure of being out in the field, watching the hounds do what they do best, and discovering the pure beauty of the sport

His proposal to ban encrypted web traffic, on the back of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, is a grimly predictable piece of statism

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that he wanted to change the law so that there would be no…

For ordinary Muscovites, the old instincts of self-preservation have surfaced from the 1990s like a sausagey burp

Plus: the real number of Muslims in Birmingham, and which liquids are cheaper than milk at Tesco

By Athenian standards, our justice system has a democratic deficit. But public opinion has ways of closing the gap

From ‘Music and the war’, The Spectator, 16 January 1915: The war, so far, has not thrown up any supreme…

No Stitch Up Dear Qanta: Our names are Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright, and we were the hosts who interviewed…

A Syriza win could put the eurozone back into crisis – and push the economy back to the top of the UK agenda

Those lining up to defend freedom of speech are all too often the very people who are out to curtail it

Google is already undermining medical authority. What will things be like when IBM's Watson is up and diagnosing?

Reading some reactions to events in Paris, I’m no longer certain that western values would survive another long war

Plus: The case for Jon Moulton, and the trouble with milk

A review of The Poet’s Tale by Paul Strohm describes a pivotal year in the life of the father of English poetry

A review of Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream finds there are still no clear answers over the benefits of prohibition or legalisation

A review of Mr and Mrs Disraeli by Daisy Hay paints a glowing picture of the marriage of two political minds

A review of Thomas Asbridge’s The Greatest Knight suggests that the man considered the ‘power behind five English thrones’ remains a decidedly grey eminence

David Sexton delights in Soumission, the latest electrifying offering from France’s bad-boy novelist, but warns that an English translation will not be available until the autumn

A review of The Door that Led to Where promises adventures and a clever juxtaposition of 19th- and 21st-century worlds

Andrew Lambirth finds a stringent radicalism at the heart of one of our most unassuming and decorative artists

On the eve of the release of Testament of Youth, a film adaptation of a celebrated memoir of the Great War by Williams’s mother, Vera Brittain, Jasper Rees talks to the Lib Dem peer about Hollywood, pacifism and the Gestapo

Plus: a wronged Sylphide from the Royal Danish Ballet

Whitechapel Gallery celebrates 100 years of geometrical utopianism, while at the Gagosian Richard Serra offers something more colossally industrial and bleak

The space is underused, the dancing is distracting, the chorus underpowered, leaving Gyula Orendt’s Orfeo to carry much of the emotional core

Plus: Trafalgar Studios’s Donkey Heart is warm and rich but also contrived

Still, Reese Witherspoon gives one of her best performances since Walk the Line

Plus: BBC1’s Death in Paradise - the worst programme I almost never miss

Plus: a history of love and hate from Ted to Troy

If I were asked to name my favourite job over the past 15 years, since I took leave of my…

Wanting to love it was not enough; Mr Turner just didn’t quite do it for me. Mike Leigh’s new film…

It will make for a far better world

And here, a mile from the hotel, was my 'everyone gone out, have a soak in the bath first, put some music on' wank of the decade

Then I opened the door and realised the mop was still there, and no binman was ever going to touch it

They may have a certain primeval beauty. But they're a cannibalistic menace

We’re going to make your Red Cross suppers so appetising you will never want to leave that refugee camp

This may sound odd, given its male-only membership, but the Portland is one of my favourite bridge clubs. I’m one…

The exciting American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura compensated for his somewhat lacklustre performance in the London Classic section, held at Olympia…

White to play. This position is a variation from Williams-van Wely, London Rapidplay 2014. How can White bring his kingside…

In Competition No. 2880 you were invited to provide a publicity blurb for the Bible to sell it to a…

The unclued lights (one of three words and two of two words), individually or as a pair, are of a…

First prize Roly Harris, London N1   Runners-up Michael Collins, Petts Wood, Kent; Clare Reynolds, London SE24; Tony Mouzer, Shard End,…

I've found a new hero. Though I'd prefer a Big Society method for carrying through his obsession

It gives both parties something to lose – but it’s not without problems

It featured a famous cast and I have been sworn to secrecy – how can I get her to tell me again?

Does it take a great civilisation to produce great wine? In this case, yes

The original sense – 'producing many offspring' – seems pretty much dead