Shall we go Dutch? 

Andrew Gimson on an unlikely European union,
Lionel Shriver on Obama's unwelcome interference 

Piers Paul Read, Paul Johnson: Popes
Julie Bindel, Mara Delius: Political Sexists
Lisa Hilton: De Sade doesn't turn me on 

Oliver Letwin/Douglas Murray/Andrew Roberts/Noel Malcolm/Anne McElvoy/Ben Judah/Sarah Johnson/Alan Bekhor/Jay Nordlinger/Patrick Bishop/Tibor Fischer/Anthony Thwaite/Peter Whittle/Emanuele Ottolenghi/David Pryce-Jones/Simon Heffer/Dominic Lawson/Nick Cohen/Norman Lebrecht/Michael Prodger/Joseph Bottum/B.H. Fraser/Daisy Waugh