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July/August 2009

The euphoria is over. It is time for a serious critique of Barack Obama’s foreign policy
 President Barack Obama giving his speech in Cairo Judging a new American President's national security policies after six months in office is a perilous enterprise, especially in the case of Barack Obama, where constant incantations of "change" and serial criticisms of his predecessor are the order of the day.
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Give Us Poetic Justice
CLIVE JAMES
Clive James: The Oxford Professorship may be the most coveted job in poetry. But the rules of election have to be changed to stop it becoming a poisoned chalice
The Tory Who Wasn't There
STEPHEN GLOVER
Less than one year before a general election, not even the Conservatives are quite sure what David Cameron stands for, writes Stephen Glover
Banking on Allah
ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens: Islamists claim that a sharia-compliant financial system is safer and morally superior. The truth is more sinister
 
Only God Can Save Us from Ourselves
MICHAEL NAZIR-ALI
Bishop Nazir-Ali: Abandoning Judaeo-Christian values has led to the abolition of the family and a moral collapse in business and public life
They Who Speak for England
NICK COHEN
Nick Cohen: Crisis and scandal have confirmed voters’ suspicions about their rulers. We are witnessing a taxpayers’ revolt
Adventures of a Book in Africa
MICHELA WRONG
Michela Wrong's exposé of corruption in Kenya was suppressed, then pirated, and finally rescued by an unlikely combination of saviours.
 
Time to Abolish the Arts Council
MARC SIDWELL

Labour's "golden age" of the arts has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare of political correctness, waste and incompetence

Slaves of the Bonus Culture
KENNETH MINOGUE

The demise of the professions is having a profound impact, starting with the disappearance of integrity in public life

Exile on Jermyn Street
JONATHAN FOREMAN

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman

NICHOLAS MOSLEY AND SIR RAYMOND CARR
Nicholas Mosley and Sir Raymond Carr discuss about the rise and fall of British fascism