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Sunday 7 September 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


A beloved British institution

Sinclair McKay

17th October, 2007

Hammer’s 1958 Dracula is being re-released

Can Dave stay in the lead?

Fraser Nelson

10th October, 2007

After a momentous week in politics which has seen a 14 point swing in the polls and an election called off, Fraser Nelson assesses the new political landscape. He warns Douglas Alexander and Ming Campbell to watch their backs in the months ahead and the rest of us not to expect an election until 2009 or maybe even 2010.

The next Saddam — minus the torture

Con Coughlin

10th October, 2007

General Mohan al-Furayji, the Iraqi commander in Basra

The secrets of Beijing’s ‘black jails’

Aidan Hartley

10th October, 2007

The author’s arrest while investigating Chinese prisons

The history of kings

Hywel Williams

10th October, 2007

An archaeological site reveals the resilience of monarchy

‘They come at three in the morning’

Fergal Keane

10th October, 2007

A dawn meeting with fugitive monks in a safe house in Burma

Intelligence2 debate

Lloyd Evans

10th October, 2007

Lloyd Evans on Tuesday night's debate

Memories of my Venetian palace

Robin Lee

10th October, 2007

A history of Palazzo Mocenigo, where Byron lived

Monaco’s man with a plan takes his place centre stage

Freddie Sayers

10th October, 2007

Prince Albert has big plans for the principality

Laws that bring out the bigot in me

Rod Liddle

10th October, 2007

An alarming increase in legislation that constrains free speech

The sweet contagion of freedom

Fergal Keane

3rd October, 2007

Burma is awakening from a nightmare of greed and repression. 

Fergal Keane meets a family on the Thai-Burma border whose tragic story is Burma's story but remains optimistic about the chances of the Burmese desire for freedom ultimately triumphing over the junta. 

‘So close to war’

James Forsyth and Douglas Davis

3rd October, 2007

On 6 September, when Israel struck a nuclear facility in Syria

Lessons of a tsunami

Michael Howard

3rd October, 2007

The Solomon Islands tragedy and the problem with aid

Blair said, ‘Let’s not talk about Iraq’

Mary Wakefield

3rd October, 2007

An interview with the novelist Robert Harris

Don’t be afraid to say it

Douglas Murray

3rd October, 2007

The West should be proud of its ethical achievements

Farewell to the NYC dating scene

Amelia Torode

3rd October, 2007

The wedding of the author’s wing-woman

Not only rabbits will suffer

Rod Liddle

3rd October, 2007

Myxomatosis is back, with serious ecological implications

David Cameron’s judgment day

Fraser Nelson

26th September, 2007

This will be a make-or-break conference for the Tory leader

A call to arms from St. Paul

Norman Tebbit

26th September, 2007

If Cameron is to win, he cannot equivocate

Inside George Osborne’s war room

Fraser Nelson

26th September, 2007

The shadow chancellor maps out the Tory election campaign

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