A deadly veil of silence: Clive James and Nick Cohen denounce the apologists for murder and misogyny

George Weidenfield, Jonathan Sacks: The Jewish Century

Lionel Shriver: Michael Jackson's hyper-narrative

Bryan Ward-Perkins: Rome's decline and fall guys

Back to School Issue: Susan Hill and John Stein: stretch our children's minds

Shmuel Bar / R.W. Johnson / Ingo Schulze / Jonathan Bate / Daisy Waugh / Allan Massie / John McEwan / Conrad Black / Peter Stanford / Dominic Lawson / Ellen Alpsten / Tim Congdon / Roger Kimball / Robert Messenger / Caroline Moore

Summer Double Issue

The post-American President: Obama's foreign policy needs to come down to earth, by John Bolton

Michael Nazir-Ali: Where Rowan Williams is wrong

Stephen Glover: What does David Cameron really stand for?

Clive James: My master plan for filling Oxford's poetry chair

Nicholas Mosley and Raymond Carr: The roots of British facism

Piers Paul Read / Michela Wrong / Orhan Pamuk / Jessica Duchen / Chris Woodhead / Martin Gilbert / Lionel Shriver / Joseph Epstein / Michael Burleigh / Minette Marrin / Kenneth Minogue / John Cottingham / Nidra Poller / Caroline Moore / David Wark

The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown: Tim Congdon on the Unnecessary Recession; plus: Frank Field, Jeremy Jennings and Lionel Shriver

Jonathan Mirsky: The long shadow of Tiananmen

Michael Gove and Hazel Blears: Islam and Islamism  

Susan Hill: Children miss the sublime sound of silence

Edward Stourton / Vanessa Neumann / Justin Marozzi / Sarah Ruden / Damian Thompson / Nick Cohen / John Updike / Clive James / David Hockney / Piers Paul Read / Paul Johnson / Michael Burleigh / Ian Bostridge / Allan Massie / Mara Delius / Daisy Waugh / Peter Whittle

Thatcher still matters: Nigel Lawson evokes the Iron Lady's golden touch

Nick Cohen: Gordon Brown's filth machine

Lionel Shriver and David Coleman: We need to talk about immigration

Austerity and Abundance: Banish the recession blues with Kenneth Baker, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Peter Whittle and Louis Amis

Overrated: Naomi Klein; Underrated: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Clive James / Gertrude Himmelfarb / Tibor Fischer / Simon Heffer / Mark Bostridge / Sir Michael Howard / Amir Taheri / Christopher Clark / Geza Vermes / Ian Thomson