Shinzo Abe
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
