Columns

Manchester Square

Is the West Bust?

DANIEL JOHNSON

‘Even in the midst of financial turmoil, the West still needs defending’

The Mole

Underfunded, Overcrowded

ANONYMOUS

Standpoint’s Mole in a prison reveals a world of incompetence and intimidation

Cosmos

Ditch the New Maths for Good Old Euclid

MARK RONAN

Every pupil should have the chance to learn from the neglected father of geometry

Marketplace

TIM CONGDON

‘If we are buying carpets, we are suspicious. When it comes to really big decisions, we ought to be equally suspicious’

Little Platoons

Success Stories

JAMES HICKLING

First Story engages professional authors to help improve literacy in the school system

Imagination

Party Lines

DAISY WAUGH

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

Open Season

MELANIE PHILLIPS

‘The notion that talking to the enemy avoids war - a position otherwise known as appeasement - is a dangerous fallacy’

The Outsider

DOUGLAS MURRAY

‘Airing the truth is not the same as concocting a lie; but neither must be made impossible’

The Way We (Don't) Live Now

SARAH VINE

‘In the trendy liberal’s bumper book of stereotypes, the term middle class does not describe who we are: industrious, law-abiding and tax-paying’

Points East and West

EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI

‘Obama would be an American, not European, president, and Livni would be an Israeli leader, not a Brussels bureaucrat’

Utopia

It's Good to Talk

ALAIN DE BOTTON

We should introduce menus for conversation at dinner parties to make the evening come alive

Guest Speaker

DENIS MACSHANE

‘Is there an absolute measure to settle the argument on limits of freedom of speech? No. Each law-making democracy must decide for itself’

Jurisprudence