"We should be under no illusions: if Israel falls, the rest of the West will be next."

'The old far-Right terminology just doesn't apply to a defender or women, gays and Jews like Geert Wilders'

'Turkey has to choose: it is either part of the Western alliance against Islamism or it is with the radicals'

This isn't just any bureaucracy, this is M&S bureaucracy: Miriam Gross was told by the high street giant that she needn't worry about her lost card. That's when she should have started worrying.

'Bankers are humans too. Their only crime has been to be clever, hard-working, rich and successful'

'The principle is simple enough: Parliament doesn't interfere with the courts, the courts don't interfere with Parliament. But it's not unlimited'

'Life doesn't imitate art; art imitates life, rather pallidly in most instances'

‘The Storm of War reminds us that Roberts is a first-rate writer’

'The interests of Germany and Europe are the same: Germany should leave the euro'

'Many modern historians are reluctant even to deploy terms like "good" and "evil"

'In the Old World, a leader is criticised — and quits — for being too emotional. In the New World, a leader is criticised for not being emotional enough'

Our Mole says the celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay are feeling the heat

The latest work on synthetic cell creation by Craig Venter raises serious questions about bioethics

Impact Foundation Bangladesh funds a floating hospital which provides treatment to remote villages

In sport, it’s not just knowing how to lose that’s important, it’s also knowing how to win

'Perhaps it was Philidor's prodigious musical intuition that somehow gave him a special insight into how the chess pieces should be harmonised'

As the cuts loom, Daisy Waugh shares the working mums' pain