Barack Obama has squandered his first year in office in the face of al-Qaeda’s growing threat

European liberalism has gone badly wrong. Why does a culture that prides itself on opposition to bigotry become so feeble when confronted by reactionary clerics?

If the state were to support students rather than dons, Britain could have its own Ivy League

British insularity is a myth: most contemporary foreign fiction just isn’t worth translating into English