In the magazine this month
October 2015
The exodus is changing the West before our eyes. Lack of leadership has allowed the Continent to drift towards a form of cultural suicide.
What is now being called Europe’s “migrant crisis” is far more than that. It is in fact a crisis of European thought and of political leadership. At the heart of this crisis are the irreconcilable feelings of the European publics, the problems of a European political class trying to found policies based on those contradictions and a continent-wide unwillingness to think this crisis through beyond short-term emotionalism to any of its logical endpoints.
DANIEL JOHNSON
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
ROBIN HARRIS
The new Labour leader’s far-left politics mean the Conservatives no longer need to play Blairite games. The modernisers’ days are over
FRANK FIELD
By electing a far-left internationalist, Labour has failed to listen to the hopes and fears of its core voters on immigration and welfare
CATHERINE BROWN
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
MICHAEL KELLY
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
LASZLO SOLYMAR AND RICHARD SYMS
In 1984, Laszlo Solymar (under a pseudonym) predicted the collapse of the USSR. Will today’s Russia suffer the same fate?
JEFFREY MEYERS
Five British writers were in Russia in 1917. Each one had his own story, but all were overwhelmed by the powerful tide of history
D.J. BUTTERFIELD
The internet bookselling market appears to be based on nothing more than whim
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ALASDAIR PALMER
- Shame On The Liberals Who Rationalise Terror
- The Cowardice Of John Le Carré
- The Establishment Is In Denial — Yet Again
- Is There A Right Way To Write?
- A Fascist Coup In Poland? Give Us Poles A Break
- France, Islam, And The Second Class Sex
- The Stalinist Past Of Corbyn’s Strategist
- The Year Of "Social Justice"
- Shame On The Liberals Who Rationalise Terror
- The Cowardice Of John Le Carré
- The Establishment Is In Denial — Yet Again
- Is There A Right Way To Write?
- A Fascist Coup In Poland? Give Us Poles A Break
- France, Islam, And The Second Class Sex
- The Stalinist Past Of Corbyn’s Strategist
- The Year Of "Social Justice"
- Shame On The Liberals Who Rationalise Terror
- Beyond Obama: Advice To The Next President
- The Establishment Is In Denial — Yet Again
- Is There A Right Way To Write?
- The Cowardice Of John Le Carré
- Double Games Of The UK Muslim Brotherhood
- Did Burke Betray The Cause Of Liberty?
- Two Languages And The Chasm Between Them