New York university requires all applicants from high school to answer the following question: "Are there any significant experiences you've had, or accomplishments you have realised, that have...

Dissent Spring 1996 Colin Powell's decision not to run for the Republican nomination both surprised and disappointed me. It also prompted a search for a satisfactory explanation. I began with the...

Jeremy Clarke goes on holiday to New Zealand where he watches soaps and dices with death

The raucous Europhobic Tory press and their pitch to mould the new conservatism

 

The son of a famous man

Edward Pearce advises David Lloyd on how to sort out English cricket

John Lloyd recalls an unhappy time as New Statesman editor and considers the latest attempt to revive it

 

Peter Kellner examines the reasons why the pollsters so badly underestimated the Tory vote in the 1992 election and asks whether it could happen again.