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Issue: June 2013

Two New Poems
Anthony Thwaite

Three New Poems
Alistair Elliot

Freedoms We Risk Losing
A Westminster lecture
Michael Nazir-Ali

Riot of Spring
Stravinsky’s new work caused such an uproar that the police were called in. But why no encore?
Norman Lebrecht

Good Show — Pity About the Book
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is a treat for the eyes but cannot escape its flimsy source material
Peter Whittle

The Shabby Deceit of BBC Journalism
Embarrassed by their own lacklustre work, Auntie’s reporters refuse to acknowledge the graft of others
Nick Cohen

Hothouses and Mid-Life Crises
The West End’s latest box office hits specialise in existential angst and domestic backstabbing
Anne McElvoy

The Space Behind Them
A contemporary of the British Pop Artists, Patrick Caulfield is at last coming into his own
Michael Prodger

Overrated: Maureen Dowd
The New York Times columnist, despite her transatlantic celebrity, no longer knows how far to go in her puerile cattiness
Roger Kimball

Underrated: Melanie Phillips
The most reviled personality in British journalism is a courageous writer whose independent thought has made her the target of boorish, misogynistic and anti-Semitic abuse
Robert Low

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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