Francis Stuart, one of Ireland's finest living writers, spent the last war in Berlin writing scripts for Lord Haw Haw. Jason Cowley visits the 94 year old writer in his Dublin bungalow and considers...

Party funding is a burning issue in the US, even after the election. Labour, if elected, will expand public funding for political parties in Britain. But in the meantime where are the parties getting...

Science against philosophy Dear Anthony, I will not spare your convictions-this century you philosophers have contributed nothing to the understanding of science. Certainly nothing that is of...

The west won the cold war, but cannot and should not impose its distinct values on other world civilisations. Samuel Huntington, in an elaboration of his "Clash of Civilisations" essay published in...

The Foreign Office has not grasped how utterly the world has changed over the past decade. David Howell, chairman of the Commons' foreign affairs committee, argues that Britain's interests lie...

Many people will be hungry this Christmas. But despite what the official studies say, the globe is not going to hell in a handcart. Nicholas Eberstadt challenges the pessimists on both overpopulation...

Should we bring back the death penalty?

Since 1961 the amount of time parents spend looking after children has doubled. Contrary to expectation, says Jonathan Gershuny, full time working mothers spend more time on childcare in 1995 than...

Is Germany taking over in central and eastern Europe? The country has re-established a dominant presence in its eastern hinterland. But, apart from friction with the Czechs, it has been welcomed.

This satire on fin de siècle literary London, written in 1912, reaches its fictional climax in 1997. It could be sabotaged by a very real decision to rebuild the British Museum reading room Abridged...