St Francis to Pope Frank 

Daniel Johnson expects the new Pontiff to speak truth to power, but disappoint the Left

Robin Harris, Simon Scott Plummer: Christians, persecuted and thriving

Andrew and Sally Gimson judge CameronGeza Vermes: Did Jews use crucifixion?Douglas Murray: Queensberry misrule 

 Shall we go Dutch? 

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

Piers Paul Read, Paul Johnson: PopesJulie 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

Conflict and civilisation 

Andrew Roberts, John Bolton, Amir Taheri, Norman Lebrecht and Daniel Johnson reflect on past and present wars, cultural and military 

Michael Nazir-Ali/Lionel Shriver/Joseph Epstein/Geoffrey Robertson/Anthony Julius/Nick Cohen/Geza Vermes/Sarah Skwire/Tim Congdon/Anne McElvoy/Douglas Murray/Mara Delius/Conrad Black/Paul Johnson/Louis Amis/David Pryce-Jones/Fiona Pitt-Kethley/Patrick Heren/Erin Bannister Townsend/David Womersley/Dominic Lawson/Simon Heffer/Aidan Nichols/Joshua Rozenberg/Peter Whittle/David Platt/Michael Pinto-Duschinsky/Michael Burleigh/Emanuele Ottolenghi/Matthew Hunter/Michael Prodger/Daisy Waugh

Is it a Tory? Is it a liberal? No, it's... SUPERCAM! 

Iain Martin, Daniel Johnson, and Andrew Roberts on conservative leadership 

Justin Marozzi and Edward Lucas on Patrick Leigh Fermor 

Emanuele Ottolenghi: Turks, Arabs & Jews

Susan Hill: How I was bullied as a child

Robin Harris: Hezza — the twilight saga

Grey Gowrie/Simon Heffer/Charles Saumarez Smith/Lionel Shriver/Quentin Blake/Julie Bindel/David Womersley/Robin Harris/Andrew Gimson/Anne McElvoy/Myron Ebell/Daisy Waugh/William Norton/Mara Delius/Douglas Murray/Dominic Lawson/Tim Congdon/Mark Ronan/Michael Burleigh/Joshua Rozenberg/Michael Prodger/Norman Lebrecht/Christopher Fildes