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Issue: October 2017
The status quo cannot hold
Can the West defend itself? On the face of it, the question answers itself: of course we can. And yet Donald Trump has called into question its very survival.
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Vive les Huguenots!
In Provence, a community of French Protestants gather every September
Abigail Frymann Rouch
Counterpoints
Liberty ship
Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, HMS
Victory
, has earned the right to go back into the water
Joshua Gelernter
Counterpoints
Critical mass
Theatre critics are frequently out of step with audiences and prone to bringing too much of their own baggage to their writing
Christopher Tookey
Counterpoints
Case closed
Ideally, a person should occupy the space of a person. This should rule out the trailing of collision-prone wheeled suitcases
Keren Levy
Counterpoints
A shopping list for the Tories
‘So often, Conservatives think that retail politics is just an auction of promises that we can never win’
Robert Halfon
Guest Speaker
Does Parliamentary arithmetic add up to Brexit?
‘The fastest route for Mrs May to exit Downing Street is for her to make a compromise too far for mainstream Conservative Brexiteers’
Michael Mosbacher
Politics
From perpetrator to victim
‘At almost any time in history before today, someone who had deliberately released their own nation’s secrets would have been regarded as a traitor’
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
Is Trump the man for a Korean missile crisis?
The President’s warlike response to Kim Jong-un’s threats exposes his lack of global leadership. The Trump doctrine will cost the West dear
Alexander Woolfson
Features
The PhD Generals
In the 1980s, PhD students from the military, like David Petraus, were the exception. But academia and the US army increasingly intersect
Elisabeth Braw
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An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar
Manchester Square
An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin
Books
Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
Books