Two hundred years ago, prison reformer John Howard recommended an austere, labour-intensive programme to rehabilitate criminals. Michael Howard, the Home Secretary, shares his belief in austerity if...

Labour's stakeholder Britain shouldn't try to emulate Germany, argues David Soskice. Germanic institutions would not work in Britain's de-regulated, service-based, economy. Rather, Labour should try...

The retreat of religious faith-Arnold's "long, withdrawing roar"-has not happened as predicted in the 20th century. Even in Europe, where church attendance has fallen sharply, most people still...

Without Nuremberg trials or public memorials to the millions who died in the gulags, post-communist countries cannot come to terms with their past. Anne Applebaum describes the moral and political...

Matthew D'Ancona VS Graham Stanton.

On the 50th anniversary of Orwell's essay, Politics and the English Language, Andrew Marr finds political English in good health—thanks, in part, to Orwell's warnings. Power and brutality still...

The end of the cold war has left Nato with a diminished role. Will extending Nato to central Europe help revitalise the organisation and stabilise the new democracies? Or will it unnecessarily...

SUMMARY China has the world's largest television industry. The audience has grown from 80m in 1978 to 900m today. About 30m homes are also linked to cable stations, expected to rise to 100m by the...

Just as the right is poised to take over the Conservative party, it has stopped thinking. Worse still it has introduced an alien element into British politics-centralist, interfering, paranoid. The...

What do the Germans want from Europe? As the European Union prepares for the intergovernmental conference in Turin, the German government is pressing for one more stride towards integration. Michael...