The guru of “repressive tolerance” and campus radicals

'It is one of the joys of editing a magazine that, if it is good enough, great writers occasionally descend from Parnassus to contribute. Bob Conquest was one'

The Royal Academy’s exhibition of Klimt and Schiele drawings from the Albertina is erotic, manic and morbid

The man who proclaimed the end of history is now history himself

"What has alarmed many people is the revelation that the Labour Party is now led by a man who sees no place for a Jewish state and has no time for British Jews who defend such a state"

William Simmonds was a modest but extraordinary artist, whose reputation rested on his marionettes and puppets

A brilliant new biography sheds fresh light on the wartime leader and refutes a renewed claim that the whole conflict was unnecessary

The veteran Labour MP  has always championed the poor, but has now quit the party because of the far Left’s anti-Semitism

"V.S. Naipaul is an irreparable loss, but his astonishingly rich and varied corpus of works will live on to nourish the hearts and minds of posterity"

‘A sudden reassertion of national sovereignty and identity is perceived by many as a reversal of what has come to resemble a natural order of things’