Rosemary Righter
Rosemary Righter is a former chief leader writer at The Times, specialising in international politics and economics. She has lived in Hong Kong, where she was assistant editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and then worked for Newsweek, and in Paris - her 'first city' - where she exposed Unesco's assault on press freedom. Her other books include Utopia Lost, an anatomy of the United Nations. She now divides her time between London and Italy, with her husband the distinguished China scholar Robert Elegant.
Faith in the voters
Boris’s secret is not treating the electorate like depressing raw material
A return to duty
Campaign Diary: Bedbound reflections on the ongoing brutality of war in Ukraine
Losing our religion
This DFE equality assessment gives a fascinating insight into the Government’s attitude to religion
Doing time
British prison sentences must be taken with a generous pinch of salt
Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
Guardians of our culture
Conservative America still vibrantly upholds the cause of Western civilisation
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
How the Church blew it on race
A secretive Church of England commission is intent on seeing bigotry everywhere
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns