When American neoconservatives rose to intellectual prominence in the 1970s, they were invariably described — not least by themselves —…

A column like this cannot ignore the terrible events in the Middle East as Iraq falls apart from bloody-mindedness, Islamic…

The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…

Everyone who appears on the cover of a magazine feels angst about how they look. As the editor of a…

For our $10 million, we deserve a more coherent case for Constitutional change than motherhood statements

Should we really ostracise the opera singer Tamar Iveri?

How to combat the new breed of Australian jihadists

The hawks were wrong about every aspect of Iraq, so why on earth should we still listen to them?

Increasingly, not to understand faith is not to understand the world

Italy's stand-up populist has some alarming statements in his record – and some even more alarming supporters

He made a joke about punching. Unlike Michael Fabricant’s, it was funny

It's the perfect cause for our narcissistic times

If ever there was a business model ripe for disruption, it’s theirs

The rise of China is giving the developing world a new, authoritarian model

And other joys of Radoy, Norway

It's time this chapter of hysteria was drawn to a close

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, fought a last-ditch battle against the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the…

Here are Thatcher's children – some of them demanding 'more Europe'

A new call to include sea life in our 'moral circle' finds an echo in Plutarch

Plus: The relatives who leave most legacies, and the best places to park illegally in London

Sugar added tax Sir: Julia Pickles (Letters, 14 June) suggests a sugar tax to combat the obesity epidemic and discourage…

The man at No 11 feels on top of his brief – and ready to tackle other people's

Plus: The secret of Prince Philip's tie revealed, and some marketing advice for Coutts

An asphixiated badger? An obese burger eater? No, this is my Britain…

Boris Johnson could eat a bacon sandwich tomorrow – and turn it to his advantage

Prohibition is a failed policy. We’re tackling that by doing more of it

Plus: The UK drug company that’s not scared of a takeover bid, and remembering Felix Dennis

A review of Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, by Alexander Larman. You wouldn't have wanted to meet him, but he deserves a biographer who can write

A review of Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, by Carrie Gibson. A vivid and thought-provoking synthesis of the disparate histories of the islands of the West Indies

A review of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France, by Caroline Moorehead. Parallel to the squalid map of Vichy was a map of decency

Plus: The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair? It's not a Great American Novel. But it is a decent thriller

A review of Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, by Prue Shaw. This companion to the life and work of the Italian genius will make you blink in wonder

A review of Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter About Almost Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The authors of Freakonomics want to teach you to think less like the kind of people who read books

On the author's centenary, Jeremy Treglown wonders how his legacy stands up

As a result, Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm is a toothless and inept novel

Ben Chifley once spoke about a shining light on the hill. By the time that Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard…

On the eve of his UK tour, the stand-up comedian tells Matthew Stadlen how depression triggered his career – and rescued his marriage

Plus: a new play by Jesse Briton at the Southwark Playhouse that needs editing

Plus: the visionary landscapes of Glyn Morgan at the Chappel Galleries

British comic strips were nothing if not subversive, as this new British Library exhibition shows

Plus: interaction galore - between East and West, audience and performer

Plus: a post-apocalyptic take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Linbury Studio Theatre

It’s as if the director and screenwriter looked at Mamma Mia! and thought: ‘Let’s do that again, but make it horrible and bad and ill-considered’

And don’t get James Delingpole started on the snake scene

Plus: a diary of 1914 – as Richard Strauss and the Ballets Russes hit London, Archduke Ferdinand prepares to visit Sarajevo

Hogarth’s famous ne’er-do-well is given a modern twist by David Hockney, Grayson Perry and Yinka Shonibare at the Foundling Museum

Only François Georges-Picot's daughter could make me forgive the Sykes-Picot plan

If you didn't notice the iPad lying around in Charlie's house, you might assume poaching was still a capital offence

When an equine vet gets his equipment out, he likes to run it over everything like an out-of-control hose

Most of these escapees were ill-clad, hungry and in constant danger of betrayal

For once, I came out with a healthy profit

I’m not trying to pretend it will make up for the drubbing England took in the World Cup, but if…

Chess, unlike football, appears to confer little or no home advantage. In a recent article for Kensington & Chelsea Today,…

White to play. This position is a variation from Mamedov-Carlsen, World Blitz 2014. Here White played 1 hxg5 and Carlsen…

In Competition No. 2853 you were asked to incorporate the following words (they are real geological terms) into a piece…

Each of twenty-two clues contains a superfluous word. Initial letters of these words spell three specimens of 5; these are…

According to Fred HOYLE (24), SPACE is ‘only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards’ (10…

In the end, I'm convinced, even my negative charisma can't doom this good cause

Plus: Why I reckon we can beat the All Blacks next time

Plus: Handling your stylish new non-wheeled suitcase

David Cameron was seen here. But then he has no taste of his own and must be told where is fashionable

It’s not just Islamists and Pagans who are disputing the title