Englishmen of LettersJ.W.M. Thompson on becoming a journalist, Daniel Johnson on editors, Hugh Trevor-Roper on the intellectual life

Katharine Birbalsingh: Mr Gove's gaffe

David Abulafia: Don't demonise Gypsies

Ben Judah: Hunting the lynx in Siberia

John O'Sullivan/Celia Walden/Tim Congdon/James Mumford/Lionel Shriver/Daisy Waugh/Andrew Stuttaford/Myron Ebell/Jacob Willer/Anne McElvoy/Alan Brownjohn/Mark Ronan/Laura Freeman/David Womersley/Dominic Lawson/Harriet Maltby/Jonathan Neumann/Tom Gross/Mara Delius/George Weigel/Douglas Murray/Alasdair Palmer/Jay Nordlinger

Georgian England

The prince will grow up in a new country still undsicovered by politicians, says Iain Martin

Back to the drawing board for Andrew Marr

Tim Congdon: Privatise the BBC — now

Toby Young: Tristram Hunt caught lying

Lionel Shriver: Grammar and genitals

Peter Whittle/Laura Freeman/Neil Scolding/Jessica Lambert/Jeremy Jennings/Daisy Waugh/David Womersley/David Pryce-Jones/Lesley Chamberlain/Matthew Scott/Daniel Scott/Danie Hitchens/Nick Redgrove/Daisy Dunn/Tom Gross/Nigel biggar/Angela Levin/Keith Windschuttle/Sarah Jonhson/Robin Harris/Mara Delius/Derwent May/Douglas Murray/Nick Cohen

Facing up to Islam

The extremists are winning the battle for hearts and minds of Muslims, warns Douglas Murray

Spot the fundamentalist—Richard Dawkins or C.S. Lewis? 

Gisela Stuart: Who is Angela Merkel?

Nicholas de Lange: Scama's Judaica

Lionel Shriver and Mara Delius return

Patrick Heren/Peter Oppenheimer/Jacob Willer/Laura Keynes/H.R. Woudhuysen/Ben Judah/Judith Wolfe/Andrew Gimson/Anne McElvoy/Tibor Fischer/Michael Coren/Irina Filatova/Christopher Fildes/Zareer Masani/Alev Scott/Simon Heffer/Laura Freeman/Michael Prodger/Dominic Lawson/Norman Lebrecht/Jessica Lambert/Peter Whittle/Emanuele Ottolenghi

President HamletEmanuele Ottolenghi and Daniel Johnson on indecision in the Obama White House

The Nick Cohen Guide to Dieting and Beauty 

Michael Gove on Disraeli — and Boris

Eliza Filby: Among China's Anglophiles

Ian Birrell on Baroness Ashton's idle empire

Ben Judah/Joseph Bottum/Lisa Hilton/Brendan Simms/Rachel Polonsky/John Marenbon/Patrick Heren/Matthew Hunter/Marina Gerner/Robert Wistrich/Daisy Dunn/Jamie Whyte/Anne McElvoy/Georgios Varouxakis/Daisy Waugh/C.P. Nield/James Mumford/Tim Congdon/Zareer Masani/Dominic Lawson/Norman Lebrecht/Simon Heffer/Nigel Vinson/Michael Scott