David Pryce-Jones
Arthur Koestler
An extract from the forthcoming second volume of memoirs by David Pryce Jones
The spy who loved us
“The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run”
Gullible Guests of the Nazis
Julia Boyd’s meticulously-researched Travellers in the Third Reich shows visitors to Hitler’s Germany saw only what they wanted to see
Their Own Worst Enemies
Jonathan Schanzer’s State of Failure persuasively argues that Palestine is not a country or state but a cause with the sole intention of destroying the Jews
Israel’s Tragic Hero-Victim
Unapologetic terrorist or revolutionary? Menachem Begin is rightly de-demonised, but not whitewashed, in Avi Shilon’s new biography
Overrated: John Esposito
A sceptical look at America’s leading apologist for Islam, fêted all over Washington from the Saudis to the CIA
Blundering in the Desert
Book review of Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
The View from Panorama Road
Western attitudes towards Israel’s right to nationhood have shifted significantly in the last forty years
A Very Foreign Foreigner
Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell
Amoral Equivalence
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom by Gilles Kepel
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies by Alan Dershowitz
The Brexit crunch approaches
Thorny issues remain unresolved as the transition period comes to a close. Yet the hurdles to a deal are not insurmountable
Meritocracy makes a new ruling class
Innovation has often come from hard work by unlettered people. But young progressives now seem to treat education as a proxy for virtue
Some black lives matter more than others
Black Lives Matter misses the point—we should highlight the progress we have made, not split society and trap ourselves in victimhood