Features
Only God Can Save Us from Ourselves
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: Crisis and scandal have confirmed voters’ suspicions about their rulers. We are witnessing a taxpayers’ revolt
Adventures of a Book in Africa
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
Labour’s “golden age” of the arts has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare of political correctness, waste and incompetence
Slaves of the Bonus Culture
The demise of the professions is having a profound impact, starting with the disappearance of integrity in public life
Exile on Jermyn Street
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
The Unnecessary Recession
A flawed economic doctrine led Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to plunge Britain into its worst postwar crisis
The Long Shadow of Tiananmen
An eye-witness of the massacre says its malign legacy persists 20 years on
Beyond the Myth of Mandela
As Jacob Zuma takes over as South Africa’s president, the ‘Beloved Country’ needs to break with idolatry
Silence, Please
For our children’s sake, we should follow the Trappist monks and turn off everything, including ourselves, once in a while
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?