It takes bombs, not summits, to end rape as a weapon of war
In 415BC, the Athenian army raped and slaughtered its way across the island Melos, the most notorious by-casualty of Athens’ 27-year war with Sparta. The brutal treatment of the island’s women remains...
View ArticleBen Sullivan may be a hypocrite, but he's right: Oxford has a toxic 'lad'...
Oh, Ben Sullivan. 21, and you’ve already got a Newsnight appearance under your belt. Not bad for an aspiring politician. And you’ve got a new cause: lad culture at our elite universities. Given the...
View ArticleWe don't have a 'right to die'. We need to stop thinking of everything in...
It’s hard not to feel for Paul Lamb, paralysed in a car crash, who yesterday lost a court battle to win the right to a doctor-assisted death. Outside the court, Lamb (a lively and engaging fellow,...
View ArticleCensoring Mein Kampf – or anything – simply makes its ugly ideas more attractive
Is this the Summer of Censorship? In the US, it emerged that the NBC network requested a film trailer remove the word “abortion” in order to be advertised on its website. From New York to Tel Aviv,...
View ArticleSuzanne Moore, please don't ruin feminism by starting a feminist party
I tend to be pretty keen on all things Swedish. As Fraser Nelson has documented over the years, the radical independence of Sweden’s school system still has the rest of the world scrabbling to...
View ArticleCabinet Reshuffle: David Cameron may live to regret handing Michael Gove 'the...
Apparently, radical thought is no longer a good idea in the Tory Party. Michael Gove may be loved by the grassroots, but it was the unelected Lynton Crosby, Number 10’s campaign advisor, who pressured...
View ArticleFrom Palestine to parenting: we’ve lost the art of good faith
The first casualty of war is decency on the internet. Even my most thoughtful friends have become monsters in cyberspace this week. Hamas sympathisers tweet what Brendan O’Neill calls our “moral...
View ArticleBritain has forgotten its debt to the Christians of Iraq
“Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin' and a-jivin' made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation of a long artistic tradition of celebrating the biblical...
View ArticleTory morale has collapsed – again
Anyone who tells you that they can predict the outcome of the next general election is either lying or swivel-eyed. But one thing is certain: Conservative morale has collapsed. Again. Chris Kelly is a...
View ArticleTo understand Isil, Europe must remember its own religious history
How do we win the battle of hearts and minds against Isil, Boris Johnson asked on these pages yesterday? Well, comes one obvious answer, by pointing out that they do nasty things to anyone they...
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