War
The final humiliation
What happens if the Taliban gets it right?
Staying out is the hard part
There are no dominoes to fall in Afghanistan
Three days that shamed the world
Janine di Giovanni on the profoundly moving Oscar-nominated film that is teaching young Bosnian Serbs about the awful truth of the Srebrenica massacre
Lessons of Bosnian war and peace
I’m still haunted by a murderous conflict the Western world ignored until it was too late
Fabricator and fraudster
Fabricator and fraud
Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
Gaslighting London
Westminster City’s plan to replace London’s gaslit routes
Don’t sever the head
How the cultural shift and a departure from central purposes risks making the Church unrecognisable to the grassroots members who support it
Beware of Basil
These enlightened times now ensure Jenny also runs off with the male parts!
In defence of proselytising
We should thank religious nuts for most of the liberal rights we take for granted
Boris – an optimist even in military defeat
Boris brooks no insult of our hardworking men and women in khaki and pinstripe
In search of the right stuff
Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?
Total dummies
Reinforcing messages about what makes a “real” boy or girl has no place in schools
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”