The collapse of marriage and the family." I saw the phrase in the Daily Telegraph but it could have been almost anywhere. It has become a common-place. Right and left-Telegraph and Guardian-join...

One of the most tantalising "what ifs" of recent British history

Charles Lane argues that relations between Germany and the US are becoming strained as a result of "double standards" in trade and diplomacy with Iran

A couple of years ago I was invited to lecture in the US. To arrange for a work visa, I rang the US embassy in London. Thus began my first relationship with voice-mail. Within a couple of rings I was...

How do charities spend their money?

The internet is dominated by US companies and universities. What happens there is therefore profoundly important for the future of cyberspace. And what is happening there now stinks. Take a look at...

Driving back from Plymouth airport about three years ago, engaged in polite conversation with a hitch-hiker I had just picked up, we were hit by a car coming from the other direction. We shot into a...

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin has produced varying responses in the Arab world-from the public grief of King Hussein to the much more circumspect analyses excerpted here

Ernest Gellner died on November 5th in Prague, the city where he lived as a child and to which he returned in 1992 to establish the Centre for the Study of Nationalism. In September this year the...