Features

For the Islamist doctor, terror is healing

4th July, 2007

Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi say that radical Islam is less the product of extreme deprivation than of the thwarted aspirations of the Muslim middle classes and professionals

Jihad amid the dreaming spires

4th July, 2007

Alex Lewis investigates claims that the Islamists are  recruiting at Oxford University and talks to the exiled  Omar Bakri who happily confirms his fears.

All bets are off

27th June, 2007

Fraser Nelson says that the new Prime Minister has positioned himself in territory that the Tories have left vacant, and is ready to fight a cultural battle to defend the ‘British way of life’ and win over the C1 voters who decide elections

Thatcher, me and Hong Kong

27th June, 2007

It’s the Broken Society, stupid

27th June, 2007

New New Labour’s Mr Aspirational

27th June, 2007

Stranded on Planet Fayed

27th June, 2007

Martyn Gregory, the most authoritative investigator of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, reports from a daily legal circus dominated by Mohamed Fayed

‘All because of The Spectator’

27th June, 2007

Stars in their eyes

20th June, 2007

Tessa Mayes is the first reporter to have gone undercover in the London Celebrity Centre of the Church of Scientology. It is, she finds, like a pious version of Pop Idol. The adherents want to be celebrities at least as much as Scientologists

Blair goes, Thatcherism lives on

20th June, 2007

In the last days of Blair’s premiership, Simon Jenkins is struck by the stunning resilience of Thatcherite doctrine: in time, New Labour will be seen as nothing but a change of crew

France goes tabloid

20th June, 2007

Celia Walden says that the very calculated way in which Ségolène Royal announced her break-up with her partner of 29 years was worthy of Diana

Hello, sailor!

20th June, 2007

Richard Sanders recalls the exploits of Bartholomew Roberts, a swashbuckling 18th-century buccaneer to match Johnny Depp — except that he drank tea, and was probably gay

Gaza: another front in Iran’s war

20th June, 2007

Melanie Phillips says that appeasement by Britain and America has fuelled the Palestinian violence and assisted Tehran’s ambition to establish a regional empire

Liddle Britain

20th June, 2007

The final Blair–Brown battle

13th June, 2007

Fraser Nelson says that Tony Blair’s swansong summit next week is fraught with danger for Gordon Brown. The last thing the next Prime Minister wants in his in-tray is a new EU constitution that he has to sell to the British public

Tea with Hamas

13th June, 2007

The German resistance

13th June, 2007

When Harry met silly

13th June, 2007

The way of the warrior

13th June, 2007

Liddle Britain

13th June, 2007