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Issue: December 2009

Soppy Sop

Our justice system suffers from a sentimental preoccupation with legally irrelevant testimony to victims' personalities

Anthony Daniels

Stand By Them
Iran's Green Movement has extended its hand, fist unclenched, to America. Why will Obama not take it?
Julia Pettengill

Sovereign State

It will be an unmitigated disaster if the Conservative Party doesn't honour its commitment to a Sovereignty Act

Bill Cash

An Ill Wind
I'd rather have a meatier, hotter and smellier world then give up beefy pleasures in order to reduce cow flatulence
Jamie Whyte

Should We Know About our Leaders’ Health?
Three Prime Ministers in the 20th century had historically important illnesses before they assumed office — Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Anthony Eden. To what extent did their ill health affect their policy decisions?   
Jeremy Hugh Baron

New Verse

Poems extracted from the libretto of The Lovely Ladies, a short "operatic entertainment" on the subject of wine

Hamish Robinson

Vaclav Klaus
The Czech President maintains a measured opposition to global warming alarmism
Myron Ebell

Al Gore
The former US Vice-President is becoming increasingly hysterical about climate change
Myron Ebell

Party Lines
No sex please, we're British parents, Daisy Waugh hears
Daisy Waugh

Tragedy of a Modest Master
A world championship match, held 100 years ago next month, may have been partly responsible for the loser's death
Dominic Lawson

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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