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Issue: December 2013

Philosophy and Prostate Cancer
Is the knowledge of cancer worse than the cancer itself?
Lincoln Allison

Back to the Drawing Board with Andrew Marr
Michael Daley

A History of Blood Hatred
How do racisms start? Francisco Bethencourt’s study of racial prejudices since the Crusades does its best to answer the culturally sensitive question
Christie Davies

The Sublime and the Divine
'Michelangelo was the best-remunerated artist in Italy and, like Bacon and Freud, he died a rich man. There the resemblace ends'
Daniel Johnson

Good By Stealth
The media presents Israel as a pariah but its recent efforts to provide aid to Syrian refugees belies its consistently negative image
Tom Gross

A Real Arab Spring
Israel’s thriving and very much integrated Arab population confounds the perpetual accusation that it is somehow an 'apartheid state'
Norman Lebrecht

Major and Mobility
John Major is wrong. Far from the current Conservative-led cabinet being overwhelmingly privately educated it is in fact the most representative in history
Michael Mosbacher

Floreant Drones
Whatever's killing off our bees, it isn't touching our society drones: London private members' clubs are hives of activity
Daisy Dunn

Higher Thoughts
What’s happened to Radio 4's Thought for the Day? An erstwhile spiritual haven has made way for a platform for please-all secularist banalities
Robert Low

Bah Humbug!
Have we all lost that Christmassy feeling?
Daisy Waugh

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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