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 genocidal ghouls of Isis are tearing down a precious piece of our civilisation. This is the price we pay for not standing up to barbarism

The tumultuous day Jeremy Corbyn was crowned Labour leader

The new Labour leader’s far-left politics mean the Conservatives no longer need to play Blairite games. The modernisers’ days are over

By electing a far-left internationalist, Labour has failed to listen to the hopes and fears of its core voters on immigration and welfare

Beethoven set the bar impossibly high but composers like myself still regard it as the ultimate challenge

On the set of the BBC’s recent adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, I realised that his most controversial book is as important as ever

Lord Stern’s new tract on global warming will help his Green allies to build their latter-day Tower of Babel, but renewables are irrelevant to megacities

In 1984, Laszlo Solymar (under a pseudonym) predicted the collapse of the USSR. Will today’s Russia suffer the same fate? 

Five British writers were in Russia in 1917. Each one had his own story, but all were overwhelmed by the powerful tide of history