Terminal news for bookies
Hands up: who knows what a FOBT is? It stands for fixed odds betting terminal. No? Well, you should, because…
Australian Notes
In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…
A time to spend
The need for cuts shouldn't let those in power wriggle out of their unglamorous responsibilities
Portrait of the week
Home Floods grew worse in the West Country. The village of Moorland, Somerset, was abandoned. Then the Thames flooded, from…
Cameron’s watershed moment
He's right to be on alert. Governments that don't look competent get no credit when things go well
We buy dogs to reflect ourselves. So who’s buying all these killer pitbulls?
My dog, by contrast, is intelligent, vigorous and middle class
Why was my homeless friend deported?
The officials who flew Marc to France reassured him that he could, perhaps should, come straight back
The martyrdom of Mark Steyn
I envied him for getting sued by Michael Mann. But now he needs all the support we can give
We optimists aren’t always wrong but I’m keeping watch for black swans
Plus: George Soros’s secrets, and what changed at Sainsbury’s
‘Instant wildlife – just add water’
Meeting in the Small Hours
He was there again in the small hours: not this time in a dream, but in a dream of dreaming.…
Looking for racism
It has less prejudice than the countries where I’ve lived before – and more people taking offence
Soldier, statesman, sovereign
Faisal I was humane, far-sighted, distinguished — and rather dishy, shows Ali A. Allawi in his hefty if loosely-written biography
Man of steel and glass
Detlef Mertins's book on the architect Mies, who designed New York's Seagram Building, is suitably monumental
Angel of mercy or angel of death?
Did Dr Anna Pou euthanise victims trapped in the Memorial Medical Centre? Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial takes a close look at this — and much else
The great pamphlet war
The pamphlet war between the 'conservative' Edmund Burke and the 'radical' Thomas Paine remains with us in unexpected ways, shows Yuval Levin in The Great Debate
