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Issue: December 2014
Churchill’s commandment
Would a more Churchillian prime minister have reacted more robustly to Russia going rogue?
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Politics
Minister for what?
Lynne Featherstone is not up to the task
Julie Bindel
Counterpoints
UK Politics
Take a Bow
The hostility in Sino-Japanese relations
Daniel Johnson
Asia
Counterpoints
Illiberal consensus
The political battleground of New Zealand
Jamie Whyte
Counterpoints
Politics
Enigma of the East
The inspiration for Trakl's final poem
Rudiger Gorner
Counterpoints
Literature
Our Big Break
What does a sociopathic billionaire read on his private jet?
Michael Mosbacher
Counterpoints
Literature
Zombie Nation
The origins of the undead
Boadicea Meath Baker
Counterpoints
Literature
Foreign Affairs
"Wales was every bit as foreign to my eyes as navigating an archipelago or dropping into a dinghy to visit a frigatebird"
Maureen Lipman
With Prejudice
The Met’s Mole
"Could the Metropolitan Police now explain why Bob Lambert was stirring up Muslim audiences against me?"
Douglas Murray
Politics
The Outsider's Diary
Europe’s Double Standards
"Federica Mogherini is symptomatic of Europe’s double standards against Israel—she treats other 'occupied territories' quite differently"
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Israel
Points East & West
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board