Nightmares are not invasions of evil, they come from within. Fay Weldon recounts how she was cured of them

European integration is getting blamed for painful economic reform. Christopher Tugendhat, a former European commissioner, says driving through Emu ahead of public opinion will make matters worse

Choice is the essence of modern democracy. But do we have as much as we imagine? Can more choice mean less? David Lipsey assesses the costs and limits of choice in consumption and welfare

As British universities receive the results of their research assessments, AC Grayling considers what future there is for the idea of a liberal education and laments the demise of the intellectual...

Eurosceptics are looking to the Paris mob to stop the single currency. They may have to look no further than the government. Douglas Johnson reveals the real reason why Jacques Delors did not run for...

Russia's elite used to be educated in France and Germany. Now its children eat custard in the private schools of England. Rachel Polonsky asks whether this will make any difference to the course of...

Labour's constitutional reforms are designed to devolve power. But to succeed they must first centralise it

Government in the UK has not been re-invented. Pamela Meadows, former chief economist at the employment department, says that the public sector still operates largely for its own benefit, beyond...

When Ian Buruma visited the Referendum party conference, he expected to find latter-day Mosleyites. Instead he met nostalgic, mild-mannered members of the middle class

The Silicon Valley elite have rejected the Democratic politics of their parents in favour of an aggressive individualism. Paulina Borsook looks at the ideology of techno-libertarians