Politics
Migrant Crisis? Europe Hasn’t Seen Anything Yet
The exodus is changing the West before our eyes. Lack of leadership has allowed the Continent to drift towards a form of cultural suicide.
The Age Of Cult Politics
New media technologies allow us to listen only to those we agree with. Journalists must fight that tendency
Unionists, Don’t Despair: Scotland Is Not Lost — Yet
Unionists fear that the SNP represents all Scots and that a break-up of the United Kingdom is now inevitable. They don’t and it isn’t
Subverting The Superpowers
Efraim Karsh’s book on the creation of the modern Middle East is timely but overstates his case
Mr Gove, Here Is Our Statute of Liberty
The European Convention is no longer fit for purpose. It is time for the Lord Chancellor to enshrine our freedoms in British law
A British Bill Of Rights
Geoffrey Robertson drafts a Statute of Liberty
Undeterred, Erdogan Usurps Ataturk’s Legacy
Turkish democracy remains under threat despite Erdogan’s election setback
Conservative, Moi? Jamais De La Vie!
It’s the political label that dares not speak its name in France. And Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest rebranding exercise will change nothing
Last Days Of India’s Empress
A biography of Indira Gandhi’s final years offers insights into a dark period of unmitigated corruption in Indian politics
Reflections On Bourke’s Burke
A careful and learned account which will be required reading for future historians of Burke
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?