COLUMNS
July/August 2016
"The European question has been given a decisive answer by the British people. We believe it was the right one. And it is final. Three other questions remain. Why did it happen? What does it mean? And what will happen next?"
July/August 2016
"What would George Weidenfeld have thought of Brexit? He would have analysed the causes and asked: 'Now — how do we save Europe?'"
April 2016
"Far from being the harbinger of a more transparent and law-abiding Iran, the Zanjani trial is just an attempt to settle scores"
July/August 2016
"Have the unelected heads of international institutions got too big for their boots?"
June 2013
‘Temporarily withdrawing from the human rights convention in order to deport Abu Qatada would be absurd’
March 2014
Abortion is a subject which never goes away and the arguments remain fundamental — a woman's right to choose versus a child's right to life, as each side would advance their case. And yet the technical and clinical
July/August 2016
"Somehow the tax system must be brought into the age of Uber. This is now Angela Knight’s job"
July/August 2016
"Death in Venice is the best book ever written about the nature of creative talent"
May 2015
"The Humboldt Forum is a spectacular idea. But it will take the right intellectual architect to pull it off. We will have to trust Neil MacGregor"
January/February 2011
Life in Birmingham as a vicar’s wife opened our Mole’s eyes to what has become of Britain’s second city
November 2015
‘You cannot measure the success of a city by the number of coffee chains it can support’
June 2016
"Corbyn, Sadiq Khan and Livingstone have embraced those who incite the murder of Jews"
July/August 2016
Keep cool and carry on
July/August 2016
Leonhard Euler was the presiding genius at the courts of Peter, Frederick and Catherine the Great
July/August 2016
Viktor Korchnoi, who has died at the age of 85, defeated nine world champions but never managed to claim the title for himself
July/August 2016
The law has changed its view of drunkenness greatly over time and from nation to nation
April 2014
It gets to the point doesn't it — where you're trying to "do the right thing", whatever that may be. Lead a decent, middle-class life — and yet somehow whatever you do, it's morally wrong. You know? It's
July/August 2015
Despite everything, the BBC is still one of our great cultural forces
July/August 2011
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