Columns

Manchester Square

In a Dangerous World, the West Needs Leaders

DANIEL JOHNSON

‘The crisis in the Caucasus has undoubtedly ushered in a period of global insecurity’

The Mole

Overexamined, Uneducated

ANONYMOUS

Standpoint's Mole in a comprehensive school believes we should teach children, not try to attain targets

Cosmos

Can Civilisation Last Forever?

MICHAEL HANLON

We are all doomed, or so we are told - but it may not be true

Marketplace

TIM CONGDON

‘By the 2030s China will have an economic weight two or three times that of America, its nearest rival’

Little Platoons

Saving the Pagans of Pakistan

JONATHAN FOREMAN

This month's small charity making a big difference is the Hindu Kush Conservation Association

Imagination

Party Lines

DAISY WAUGH

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

Open Season

JULIE BURCHILL

‘Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single mover and shaker is filthy rich’

The Outsider

DOUGLAS MURRAY

‘Britain and America may soon be governed by eloquent speakers whose attitude to foreign affairs is self-aggrandising posturing’

The Way We (Don't) Live Now

DAVID EKSERDJIAN

‘These two Titians are the greatest old masters left in private hands anywhere’

Points East and West

EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI

‘To realise that Syria deserved the cold shoulder did not require the life of a prime minister’

Utopia

The Joys of Planespotting

ALAIN DE BOTTON

A holiday at Heathrow promises to transform the way we experience the airport

Guest Speaker

WILLIAM HAGUE

‘If we do not act, we face a nuclear-armed Iran or a new Middle East confrontation’

Jurisprudence