Save the soundbite!
In three years in power, the coalition has produced almost no memorable line. Should we be worried?
Beyond belief
Issues like gay marriage and women bishops show how distant the Conservatives are from their Christian roots
How we invented freedom
British prime ministers today have powers like monarchs, and EU laws sideline primary legislation — let's repatriate our revolution
Pants to the fatties
As fat women become more powerful as a lobby, slim women who eat sensibly and exercise are treated as neurotic obsessives
It all began in 1963
The twelve months that brought heaps of snow, satire, sex, pop — and ended with an event that outstripped all the rest
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning
The theme of the contest is 'Man in Motion'; here are four of the nine entries shortlisted
Notes on…London galleries
Everybody knows that the London art scene is thriving, and so of course the big international commercial galleries have set…
Books of the Year
Books of the year from Philip Hensher, Jane Ridley, Barry Humphries, Jane Ridley, Melanie McDonagh, Matthew Parris, Nicky Haslam and more
Jack all alone
New letters and a group biography by Robert Dallek help round out our portrait of John F. Kennedy
Criminal damage
Gavin Stamp's Anti-Ugly and Lost Victorian Britain are a glorious lament for our lost architectural heritage - and a celebration of what remains
Evil under the sun
The connections that Patrick Marnham makes in Snake Dance - from the Congo to Fukushima, from Conrad to the Bomb - are sometimes tenuous but always compelling
The long and winding road
If you have read Iain Sinclair’s books you will know that he is a stylist with a love of language.…
A choice of cookery books
A brilliant new brick from Nigel Slater, and the other cookbooks you should want for Christmas
Violence was his vocation
J. Michael Lennon's biography does his his old friend proud - without always making him sympathetic
The manager, not the man
My Autobiography shows just how much he wants to win - and perhaps how little he's learned
Dining with a Picasso
We had decided to dine out with our latest Picasso. The Picasso sat at the head of our table. It…
Shame and blame
The facts in Ben Urwand's The Collaboration are shocking enough, without his tendentious interpretation
Captain courageous
Driving Ambition reveals why he commands respect, sometimes by not giving away secrets
Guiding dream
The new museum of art and craft stays true to its ethos of community, fellowship and shared culture
Weaving wonder
Scottish Opera has commissioned a huge tapestry to celebrate one of the world's most painterly operas
