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Issue: September 2012

Barry Martin
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Whose Olympic gold?
The attempt by the Left to present the nation's pride as a new, "post-imperial", patriotism, after the olympics just highlights their hypocrisy and opportunism
Peter Whittle

Puss in Chains
Throughout the media's coverage of the Kremlin's heinous treatment of Pussy Riot one thing has been shamefully overlooked: their feminism
Charlie McCann

Uncharitable Thoughts
A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK
Daniel Johnson

A Profligate President
George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he'd acted on this wisdom before the event
John Phelan

Pride of the CUP
Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies
Michael Mosbacher

Gore the Bore
I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore
Robert Low

Clutching at Straws and Tilting at Minarets
Two new books on the origins of Islam suffer from, at best, sloppy, and at worst, dishonest, scholarship
Eric Ormsby

A Long Way From Cable Street
Robert Wistrich's new study of anti-Semitism brilliantly elucidates how the Left has betrayed the Israel for which it once campaigned
Stephen Daisley

Elizabethan Enigma
Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield is vivid in parts, but ultimately fails to paint a clear picture of the 16th century poet
David Womersley

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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