'The papal visit has revealed the new atheists' attempt to abolish the boundary between church and state, to the detriment of the former'

‘If international affairs are your bag, you might as well have voted for the Ba’ath Party as the Conservatives’

‘Sanctions on Iran should be designed and enhanced to bring about regime change’

This isn't just any bureaucracy, this is M&S bureaucracy: Miriam Gross was told by the high street giant that she needn't worry about her lost card. That's when she should have started worrying.

‘Has the banking crisis cost the taxpayer £2 billion, £131 billion or £500 billion?’

‘It is critical to the success of the International Criminal Court that its judges are fearlessly independent’

‘The US has been hoist on the petard of its own propaganda, its own vanity about itself being a “nation of immigrants”’

‘What Machiavellian moves lie behind the removal of three hard-working and much-loved clerics from the Birmingham Oratory just before the Pope’s visit?’

'The interests of Germany and Europe are the same: Germany should leave the euro'

‘Recalling the events that led up to the Korean War can give us greater understanding of today’s conflicts’

‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’

Our Mole wonders whether Labour's unexpected outbreak of party unity will last beyond the leadership campaign

'To Assange, privacy is an accomplice to conspiracy, and should always be violated to shine a light on the lives of those in power'

The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work

Impact Foundation Bangladesh funds a floating hospital which provides treatment to remote villages

In sport, it’s not just knowing how to lose that’s important, it’s also knowing how to win

The Magnus Carlsen phenomenon has a precedent: that of the marauding Viking, Bent Larsen

Daisy Waugh finds the Big Society is catching on in smart circles