Charles Moore



Profile:
Full name: Charles Hilary Moore

Area of interest: Society, Politics, Media

Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:charles.moore@telegraph.co.uk charles.moore@telegraph.co.uk]

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Website: Telegraph.co / Charles Moore

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Biography:
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Education: Eton College; Trinity College, Cambridge: History

Career: Joined The Daily Telegraph in 1979: leader writer, assistant editor, political columnist; joined The Spectator in 1983: Editor, 1984/90; weekly columnist at The Daily Express, 1987/1990; The Daily Telegraph: deputy editor, 1990/1992; The Sunday Telegraph: Editor, 1992/95; The Daily Telegraph: Editor, 1995/2003 - stepped down from this position in order to write Margaret Thatcher's authorised biography, see: Thatcher fears hastened Moore exit and Charles Moore's statement Current position/role: Commentator


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Other roles/Main role: Chairman of the Policy Exchange think tank; Trustee of the Prayer Book Society

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Viewpoints/Insight:
 * Claire Cozens: Charles Moore: highs and lows The Guardian, October 2003
 * Conservative Home: Charles Moore endorses Cameron
 * Andrew Brown comment on: debate between Charles Moore and Ronald Dworkin, see: So you think you live in a democracy?

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Controversy/Criticism:
 * Editors Charles Moore and Piers Morgan exchange emails as their papers go to war, 2003
 * BBC News 24: The man gunning for Galloway, 2003
 * Steven Morris and Faisal al Yafai: Sack Moore, angry Muslims tell Telegraph The Guardian, December 2004

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Books & Debate:
Books:
 * Editor: A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T.E.Utley OCLC 22733706, 1989
 * The Church in Crisis OCLC 17509935, 1986

Latest work: Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography. Volume one, Not for turning OCLC84033794, April 2013. Allen Lane. See also: Matthew Tempest, News Blog: Ex editors Cross Swords over Thatcher ref: Simon Jenkins. Read a review here

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Remit/Info: Society, politics, media: societal values, the national conciousness, media perceptions

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Commentator

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Website: Telegraph.co / Charles Moore

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Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

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Average length: 1250 words



Articles:

 * What next for our 'small island’ and its dwindling Armed Forces? - Our leaders’ cloying rhetoric masks a confusion about what we’re fighting for - 7th September 2013
 * Back-seat Britain makes the world a worse place - In matters of life and death, a government must have freedom to act decisively - 31st August 2013
 * Industry made Sussex, and I hope it will again - At last, Church and State are noticing that fanatics have been steering the fracking debate in the wrong direction - 17th August 2013
 * Charities should answer to the public, not to the political elite - The new ruling class of managerialists are driven by self-interest and a desire to control - 10th August 2013
 * If the NHS embodies our conscience, we’re in trouble - The health service is held up as saintly, and that has disabled attempts to reform it - 20th July 2013
 * BBC doesn't tell the story of the great majority - Our self-righteous national broadcaster is woefully detached from voters’ real lives - 13th July 2013
 * Edward Snowden is a traitor, just as surely as George Blake was - The beneficiaries of his betrayal are not civil liberties, but those who wish to embarrass us - 6th July 2013
 * Our leaders polish their CVs and keep an eye on the exits - The outgoing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King avoided the selfishness that afflicts too many of our modern politicians - 29th June
 * Mr Cameron made a huge error when he embraced the NHS - First Mid Staffs and now the CQC scandal show the failings of a system built by Labour - 22nd June 2013
 * We are too weak to face up to the extremism in our midst - Despite the Woolwich outrage, David Cameron has failed to act against Islamist terrorism - 15th June 2013
 * Why does all the news that’s fit to print have to be so gloomy? - The Queen’s Awards for volunteers, like other uplifting events, pass under the media radar - 8th June 2013
 * What will happen at the next coronation? - We must start thinking ahead to the Queen's successor - 1st June 2013
 * David Cameron isn’t a disaster, yet I long for a radical new leader - At his best, the PM has brought firmness and clarity – but not to the big issue of our age - 18th May 2013
 * Gay marriage will haunt Cameron - The Coalition alters mankind’s most important social structure at its peril - 11th May 2013
 * Cameron should have a referendum now - Cameron should leave the EU if he does not get his reforms - 4th May 2013
 * Boswell revolutionised the way we see great men – and women - Ever since the 'Life of Samuel Johnson’, the biography has been a force in British culture - 27th April 2013
 * Radical, egotistical, romantic, innocent – the real Margaret Thatcher - Writing Baroness Thatcher’s life uncovered extreme contradictions, as well as the key to my subject - 20th April 2013
 * A woman who was first among equals - Margaret Thatcher did more than simply change Britain in the 1980s. Her influence on the way in which British politics are conducted endures today - 13th April 2013
 * Her funeral is not a political act, but a moment to wish for peace - After a life of striving for God and country, Lady Thatcher has earned her final salute - 13th April 2013
 * NHS reforms: The flaw with the new NHS is that it’s a little too independent - The chief executive of NHS England, Sir David Nicholson, will get a new lease of life if politicians can’t bring him to account - 6th April 2013
 * We must stop Britain turning into a land without memory - It may enrage some historians, but Education Secretary Michael Gove is right that children should learn things by heart - 30th March 2013
 * Southern Europe lies prostrate before the German imperium - Cyprus is only the first victim of a one-size-must-fit-all policy that is made in Berlin - 23rd March 2013
 * A new Pope, a new Primate and a new life for Christianity - The power of prayer is bringing Canterbury and Rome together after 500 years - 16th March 2013
 * Everything has changed – pity we’ve got the same old politicians - Leaders in Britain and America seem unable to grasp the reality of voters’ lives - 9th March 2013
 * Eastleigh by-election: I used to argue when people said 'all parties are all the same’. I don’t now - Voters are punishing politicians who have lost touch with normal human instincts - 2nd March 2013
 * Sorry to harp on, but the horrors of Mid Staffs just won’t go away - The PM acknowledges the shame of Amritsar, but many more died on the NHS’s filthy wards - 23rd February 2013
 * David Cameron’s ministers feel abandoned - No 10 lacks purpose, is prone to panic, and briefs against ministers when things get sticky - 16th February 2013
 * Stafford scandal: Let’s face the truth about our uncaring, selfish and cruel NHS - We don’t want any Mid Staffs 'scapegoats’ – just the people who are actually to blame - 9th February 2013
 * This Equality obsession is mad, bad and very dangerous - The great doctrine of our time is pursued at all costs – but it reduces our freedoms - 2nd February 2013
 * What David Cameron couldn’t say is that the eurozone is doomed - As Britain plots a new course, the rest of the EU remains wedded to an unworkable idea - 26th January 2013
 * David Cameron can prove de Gaulle was right about us all along - Eurosceptics should not barrack the PM’s speech when it comes: they should bank it - 19th January 2013
 * Treating every allegation against Jimmy Savile as a 'fact’ undermines justice - The self-righteous Operation Yewtree report does not get us much nearer the truth - 12th january 2013
 * Our once great RSPCA is being destroyed by a militant tendency - The animal welfare organisation has badly lost its way under its new leadership - 5th January 2013
 * A lie gone round the world before the truth had its bicycle clips on - The Andrew Mitchell affair is to the police what the McAlpine scandal was to the BBC - 22nd December 2012
 * When Conservatives forget how to be conservative, they lose - David Cameron’s plan for gay marriage shows that he hasn’t thought very hard about it - 15th December 2012
 * The trouble with being 'modern’ is that you soon go out of fashion - David Cameron must adapt to the times, but he risks ignoring what is truly important - 8th December 2012
 * The Chancellor George Osborne’s alarming device is just the weapon for a country at war - Quantitative Easing has its flaws and risks, but our crisis would have been far deeper without it - 1st December 2012
 * The press should hug the Leveson report in a grim embrace of welcome - My industry must stop behaving like trade union leaders and show a willingness to change - 24th November 2012
 * Police and crime commissioners are good politics, so why didn’t the Tories say so? - Despite the fiasco of the low turnout, the public have at last got power over the police - 17th November 2012
 * Justin Welby is the Alpha male to save the Church of England - The evangelical Justin Welby can provide the tough love that has been so sadly lacking - 10th November 2012
 * It is Mitt Romney’s 'gaffes’ that should win him the election - The Republican best represents his country’s ability to renew itself for each generation - 3rd November 2012
 * Slowly, too slowly, the Tories are embracing ever looser union - As Michael Gove has proved, it is no longer a shock to consider life outside the EU - 27th October 2012
 * Freedom of Information Act: The pursuit of transparency is leading to dishonesty and intrigue - The nincompoops who brought in FoI have allowed the political elite to leave no trace of the decision-making process of government - 20th October 2012
 * The murky 21st-century tale of Tommy Brock and Mr Grant - Fanatical resistance to the badger cull by the RSPCA and its boss should be investigated - 13th October 2012
 * David Cameron may not like the idea, but he’s been hit by a hurricane - The Prime Minister must convince Tories, as Mrs Thatcher did, that the recovery is his personal mission - 6th October 2012
 * JK Rowling has turned her back on the culture that made her great - The Harry Potter author made a fortune from the provincial life that she now so clearly despises - 29th September 2012
 * The last thing the Church of England needs is a pleasant middle manager - The next Archbishop of Canterbury must be a man who connects with all of England’s people - 22nd September 2012
 * We should use these Games to pinpoint where our genius lies - Britain’s Olympic success has the same roots as its success in other fields - 11th August 2012
 * Is Boris serious? When it comes to No 10, the answer is deadly so - After years of brilliant digression, London’s mayor is returning to his life’s true theme - 4th August 2012
 * A grimy, chaotic Babel – but would we have London any other way? - The world seeks refuge, fame and fortune in our capital, and it’s a compliment that it does - 28th July 2012
 * Britain unleashed: it’s not money that matters - it’s markets - If the economy is to grow, Britain’s entrepreneurs must thrive. In the first part of a week-long series examining the health of the free market, why has the spirit of Adam Smith given way to a culture of monopoly and over-regulation that stifles innovation - 23rd July 2012
 * Business and government have learnt each other’s worst habits - The blurring of the line between state and private sector creates a culture of confusion - 21st July
 * How to take Britain from Bleak House to Great Expectations - People must rediscover the joy of ownership if George Osborne is to repeat Neville Chamberlain’s feat - 14th July 2012
 * Does George Osborne care about the state of the nation – or is it all Balls? - If the Chancellor won’t deign to focus on the economy, give the job to someone who will - 7th July 2012
 * Our new shrinking Army needs politicians who can march in step - Can Britain live with 20 per cent fewer soldiers? - 30th June
 * President Barack Obama must do more than manage America’s decline - In the face of Obama’s timid foreign policy towards Russia and the Arab world, Republican challenger Mitt Romney is offering real hope - 23rd June 2012
 * We tamed the union bosses, now let’s tackle the barons of business - The rise of the overpaid executive presents the Tories with a challenge they should not shirk - 16th June 2012
 * As the eurozone breaks apart, Britain must go its separate way - There are two forms of crisis here, and we should concentrate on the long-term one - 9th June 2012
 * The Queen's Diamond Jubilee: We are all a part of the great flotilla of Britain - From the River Pageant to jesters on stilts, we marked our civilisation yesterday by celebrating our leaders and achievements - 4th June
 * The young Princess has always kept the faith with her people - Our monarch has found pleasure in her sense of duty, and drawn strength from religion - 2nd June 2012
 * Cameron should make friends with Romney - Some Americans like us more than others - 19th May 2012
 * Bloodless bean-counters rule over us – where are the leaders? - The inexorable march of the managerialists is creating resentment and social division - 12th May 2012
 * Revive the Coalition, don't break it apart - The Coalition remains the best response to our woes - 5th May 2012
 * The many are losing the unequal struggle - The level of reward for 'top people' exposed by the crunch persists in the face of disaster - 30th April 2012
 * I see a familiar look of fear on the faces of David Cameron’s ministers - The public should not rush to judgment on Cameron - 28th April 2012
 * Let's end the European Court nonsense on human rights - Britain needs to bring home the rule of law - 21st April 2012
 * Some secrets must be kept - 'Human rights’ are undermining the whole concept of national security - 14th April 2012
 * Atheists ignore Christ at their peril - Politicians in the West don't appreciate the benefits and power of organised religion - 7th April 2012
 * What do this lot know about anything? - The modernisers act as if they own the place – when what we really need is clear leadership - 31st March 2012
 * This Budget proved the Coalition parties are good for each other - The Tories paid more attention to the poor and Lib Dems to the rich – pity the middle - 24th March 2012
 * The civil servants are the masters now – and our democracy suffers - Attempts to reform human rights law are being frustrated by liberal bureaucrats - 17th March 2012
 * Marriage affects everything – and there’s no need to change it - David Cameron is right to modernise, but this is one institution that he should leave well alone - 10th March 2012
 * The NHS is a rotten way of doing things - One day a politician will be brave enough to transform a health service riven by fear - 3rd March 2012
 * Free schools are breaking down the barrier to a decent education for all - Michael Gove’s education reforms have created a real and potentially irreversible momentum for change - 25th February 2012
 * To defend the Church’s role is to defend faith as a whole - The Queen is right – our national religion is a force for unity and channel of peace - 18th February 2012
 * There’s no place for dreaming spires in Professor Les Ebdon’s world - Should this epitome of educational mediocrity be gatekeeper to our finest universities? - 11th February 2012
 * A modern knight made to suffer medieval punishment - Fred Goodwin should challenge the judgment of David Cameron’s kangaroo court - 4th February 2012
 * A question of honour for the Coalition - not Stephen Hester - To do difficult things, the Government must stand behind its own policies and people - 27th January 2012
 * Let Sir Fred Goodwin keep his knighthood to remind us of our collective folly - Taking honours from those who have fallen from favour is foolish and hypocritical - 21st January 2012
 * A question not just for the Scots, but for everyone in Britain - What Alex Salmond calls independence is really the break-up of the United Kingdom - 14th January 2012
 * Why have a House of Lords if there are no lords in it? - We do not need a second chamber filled with politicos - 7th January 2012
 * Margaret Thatcher was right: it should pay to be thrifty, but the government gets in the way - Taxes, inflation and welfare are making it hard to pursue the very necessary course advocated by Samuel Smiles - 31st December 2011
 * Why the lowly shepherd is the one who gets to hear the angels - Perhaps remembering honourable lives helps us understand the birth we celebrate on Christmas Day - 24th December 2011
 * Hark what discord follows when you meddle with the monarchy - Has the Government really thought through its plans to change the laws of succession - 17th December 2011
 * Cameron breaks the European taboo - The Prime Minister has shown great political courage. Now he must make sure that No doesn’t become Yes - 10th December 2011
 * Thatcher knew that capitalism must deliver for the masses - Propping up failure – in the euro and elsewhere – is hardly the recipe for renewed prosperity - 26th November 2011
 * Our leaders are out of touch with the wealth creators who can save us - Small business people need to be set free of unnecessary government regulations - 19th November 2011
 * Left and Right should join forces against the great euro takeover - As the crisis nears its moment of truth we need democrats – not technocrats – in charge - 12th November 2011
 * The EU's journey towards ever-closer union has screeched to a halt - By admitting that an exit from the euro is possible, the EU has abandoned its founding doctrine - 5th November 2011
 * Heritage Angels: heroes who make the past fit for the future - The English Heritage Angel awards celebrate great British buildings and the people who have worked tirelessly to save them - 1st November 2011
 * The protesters and the clergy at St Paul’s have both got it wrong - Our sympathy should be saved for the City workers who pick their way around the tents - 29th October 2011
 * Voters have been cheated over the European Union for too long. Let them decide - David Cameron should allow a free vote on whether to hold a referendum on EU membership - 22nd October 2011
 * With Liam Fox gone, Michael Gove will also be weakened - Vested interests that block reform will not be defeated through official channels alone - 15th October 2011
 * Gay marriage is not as simple as David Cameron believes - Government diktat should not be used to alter the basics of human society - 8th October 2011
 * The country needs David Cameron to do more than whistle in the dark - At next week's Conservative Party conference, the Prime Minister must talk truthfully about these hard times – and offer a way out - 1st October 2011
 * Europe’s problem is that no one knows who’s in charge - It’s no good calling for leadership if none of the EU leaders has the authority to act - 24th September 2011
 * For the good of rural life, we must build houses in the English countryside - Planning reforms can shape the landscape to suit our needs and still maintain its beauty - 3rd September
 * shouldn’t feel guilty about the part we played in ousting Colonel Muammar Gaddafi'' - The toppling of the Libyan tyrant provides a template for successful intervention in the Muslim world - 27th August 2011
 * to recover Britain’s streets for civilisation'' - After the 1981 riots, politicians laid into heavy-handed police. How different to today - 13th August 2011
 * a Tory PM must always deliver peace and order'' - David Cameron has said the right things, but he needs to back the police to the hilt - 10th August 2011
 * has the best man to run the Metropolitan Police been barred from applying?'' - Theresa May is trying to thwart David Cameron’s hopes of recruiting Bill Bratton - 6th August 2011
 * leaders have lost faith in the powers of their people'' - It is time for Western conservatives to prove that they are for the many, not the few - 30th July 2011
 * starting to think that the Left might actually be right'' - What with the phone-hacking scandal, the eurozone crisis and the US economic woes, the corrupt few have left people disillusioned with our debased democracies - 23rd July 2011
 * good book offers the ultimate escape'' - It is not easy to explain why reading is so important - 12th July 2011
 * broken for media sorcerer with touch of evil'' - Murdoch’s story is the most remarkable in the history of newspapers – but the end is in sight - 9th July 2011
 * future might be grey, but is that good reason to be gloomy?'' - The sooner we accept that the conditions of old age have changed for ever, the better - 2nd July
 * is turning to anger, but the EU bureaucrats will still screw us'' - As an outsider, Britain has little chance to alter this crisis which now threatens political order - 25th June 2011
 * should never come between a nation and its troops'' - Coalition plans to bring the Military Covenant into law must be strenuously resisted - 17th June 2011
 * real energy crisis is taxing people for trying to keep warm'' - It is time for Britain to walk away from its ridiculously stringent renewable energy plan - 11th June 2011
 * Williams: another blast from on high'' - Anti-government broadsides from senior clerics such as the Archbishop of Canterbury are a fine English tradition - 10th June 2011
 * change the NHS, you have to sound like a true believer'' - Andrew Lansley has committed a cardinal sin – and it is worrying that No 10 allowed him to do so - 4th June 2011
 * might of arms and the hand of friendship are both important'' - Barack Obama should remember that global strength comes from a mix of ideals and power - 28th May 2011
 * wrong with Cheryl Cole? It’s impenetrable'' - Cheryl Cole joins a long list of British stars who have failed to find favour in America - 28th May 2011
 * started as a better way to pay for universities is now a mess'' - The Tory plan to raise tuition fees has been so argued over that it now pleases no one at all - 14th May 2011
 * has seen off AV – but now he must see off Salmond'' - The crushing defeats for Miliband and Clegg have wider and more perilous consequences - 7th May 2011
 * wedding: what did the wedding tell the world about this nation of ours?'' - All human life was on display in Westminster Abbey – and all of it was mesmerising - 30th April 2011
 * wedding: The bit in the church is the bit that matters to the whole world'' - With two billion due to watch it, republicans are right to worry about the royal wedding - 23rd April 2011
 * there always be an England, whatever the origin of its people?'' - We are clamping down on immigration now, but the gates have been wide open since 1997 - 16th April 2011
 * misguided social mobility measures that take us for fools'' - By attacking excellent schools, the Coalition is making a dysfunctional system even worse - 9th April 2011
 * Of course Moussa Koussa’s a bad man, but he can be a force for good'' - Thousands of lives will be saved if Gaddafi can be dissuaded from fighting to the end - 2nd April 2011
 * what today's marchers will claim, Trafalgar is no Tahrir'' - The Left's protest may radicalise the country, but not in the way they hope - 26th March 2011
 * A good intervention is hard to pull off – but we should still try'' - Where would the West stand if it let Gaddafi murder his way back to control of Libya? - 19th March 2011
 * twice before you reveal everything on your census form'' - It’s hard to trust that government will use the information we give it wisely - 12th March 2011
 * King is right. If the banks face no risk, we shall all go down'' - They are the trade unions of the modern era, sick dinosaurs that crush ordinary citizens - 5th March 2011
 * What happens after we stop watching these revolutions against Col Gaddafi?'' - We cheer the toppling of dictators, but ignore fanatics poised to take their place - 26th February 2011
 * we want our human rights, then bring them back home'' - It is not 'appalling’ when judges protect natural justice. But it is a problem when they turn political - 19th February 2011
 * Strasbourg has its way, we will all end up as prisoners'' - The Government must take on the Court of Human Rights and reclaim control of our legal system - 12th February 2011
 * days of doing deals with Muslim extremists are over'' - As minds are concentrated on matters abroad, the Prime Minister is about to deliver a few home truths - 5th February 2011
 * Reagan: warming to the cold war warrior'' - Ronald Reagan would have been 100 on Sunday. Our current leaders could learn a lot from the great man - 4th February 2011
 * have our politicians been posher, or more prolier-than-thou'' - In these Darwinian days, it is the public schools that are producing the ruthless meritocrats - 29th January 2011
 * was selfish – and wrong – of Lady Warsi to give that speech'' - The Tory party chairman appears to believe that she alone can criticise Muslims - 22nd January 2011 (see: Tory chief Baroness Warsi attacks 'bigotry' against Muslims)
 * Coalition exists for one purpose: if it fails it's finished'' - There's no other reason apart from economic recovery for the parties to stick together - 15th January 2011
 * crusades that will succeed only in doing harm'' - The Bribery Act will safeguard government image at a cost to honest endeavour - 8th January 2011
 * history of the world in one cathedral'' - Becket's murder on December 29 is not the only fascinating tale to fill the naves of Canterbury - 29th December 2010
 * the last time they'll ask me to cook at Christmas'' - cooking for the family at Christmas is harder than mother made it seem - 27th December 2010
 * the Queen's message was really about'' - The Queen's Christmas Broadcast was cheering, but it was a bit of a stretch to see exactly how sport came into it all - 27th December 2010
 * beleaguered masses are wondering who is on their side'' - David Cameron is delivering radical policies - but voters still feel out of touch with the political class - 18th December 2010
 * still Horrids after all these years'' - Charles Moore finds that even after 25 years, a trip Harrods was not worth making - 13th December 2010
 * fees: Rioting protesters mask the real problem facing today's students'' - Universities are shoddy, state-directed and underfunded – with too little inclination for teaching - 11th December 2010
 * is in trouble. Why isn’t this country trying to put it right?'' -  As the euro founders, Britain must make a bolder case for root-and-branch reform - 4th December 2010
 * Gove’s sense of the nobility of education offers hope to us all'' - Unlike the Bible, there can be no authorised version of how our children should be taught - 27th November 2010
 * Thatcher's resignation: A career that did not die in vain'' - Twenty years after Mrs Thatcher’s resignation, Charles Moore reflects on the coup that ousted her - 22nd November 2010
 * will suffer if the police can't keep the peace'' - The Millbank rioters were few in number. But such groups represent a real threat to civil society - 13th November 2010
 * the Green Movement Got Wrong: Greens come to see the error of their ways'' - For many years, Channel 4 would not have dared devote an hour to the errors of environmentalism - 7th November 2010
 * didn’t win liberties in order to bestow them on our enemies'' - We cannot afford to leave it to the courts to conduct the fight against terrorism - 6th November 2010
 * the Emperor of Exmoor's death quite what it seemed?'' - Many questions remain, not least why we are being told that deer hunting is inherently wicked - 30th October 2010
 * terrible truth: it's natural to pick on the weak'' - Rosa Monckton's powerful television programme showed that society still has a way to go in its attitude towards the disabled and the mentally handicapped - 25th October 2010
 * Review: Honesty is the best policy before the bigger fuel bills start to bite'' - The Coalition is tackling Brown's deficit – it now needs to tackle his energy policies - 23rd October 2010
 * doesn't give a true picture of the past'' - Blackadder, fictional and comic throughout, was one of the best bits of history ever done on television - 18th October 2010
 * must adopt the courage his schoolboy heroine showed'' - As defence cuts loom, the PM needs to decide what Britain’s role is in the world, and stand by it - 16th October 2010
 * Party Conference 2010: Heir to Blair and Thatcher - can David Cameron really be both?'' - The Coalition is trying to woo and warn the voters, but it will surely have to be blunt in the end - 9th October 2010
 * Party Conference 2010: an action plan for the Coalition'' - Which Way's Up by Nicholas Boles is part of a long tradition of books by ambitious young MPs - 4th October 2010
 * Cameron, protect the thin red line'' - Liam Fox's leaked letter pleads for Britain's defence, but in the wrong way - 2nd October 2010
 * is not lost for Labour's new leader, but the tide has turned'' - A Miliband could yet be prime minister – but he must start by addressing his least relevant audience - 25th September 2010
 * Coalition is right about cuts, but it has some explaining to do'' - One of the dangers of the post-spin era is that your opponents can fill the vacuum - 18th September 2010
 * we set aside old hatreds and simply welcome the Pope?'' - Benedict XVI is a man of ideals and conscience– and he should be given a fair hearing - 11th September 2010
 * Cameron should speak frankly about Britain's own terrorists'' - David Cameron's outspoken comments about Pakistan smack of hypocrisy and grandstanding - 31st July 2010
 * months to decide whether to humour the Lib Dems'' - If we really want the most unpopular parties always to wield power, then we should vote for AV - 24th July 2010
 * Mandelson is flawed, but he does have a salutary tale to tell'' - Lord Mandelson has written the best account so far of the extent of the destruction wreaked by the Blair-Brown rivalry - 17th July 2010
 * attending Kylie concerts a fundamental human right?'' - Our obsession with sexuality may be blinding us to deeper truths - 10th July 2010
 * Right ways are not the wrong ways'' - Nick Clegg's Great Repeal Bill is indeed great – but who thought of it first - 3rd July 2010
 * Cameron's good fortune was not to have won the election'' - Unity in the face of adversity is empowering the Coalition behind a prime minister of natural ability - 26th June 2010
 * Heath failed, both as a man and a politician'' - 21st June 2010
 * euro's inevitable failure will be horrendous for all of us'' - The single currency is a disaster, but the cost of its life support will devastate Europe's economies - 19th June 2010
 * carries all before it – but at a price'' - Charles Moore admire Matt Ridley's Whiggish cheerfulness, but cannot completely share it - 14th June 2010
 * can succeed where the grammar schools failed'' - Michael Gove's proposals could extend a better education to the majority, so the opposition of the Catholic Church is surprising - 12th June 2010
 * has Israel disarmed itself in the battle for world opinion?'' - Islamist fanatics were allowed to use the 'humanitarian’ flotilla as a weapon - 5th June 2010
 * leaders must figure out what national security means'' - Britain needs a figure like General David Petraeus to rethink how we fight wars and fund our Armed Forces - 29th May 2010
 * already has coalition trouble – with his own party'' - How can Conservative MPs trust their own Prime Minister if he mounts a coup against them - 22nd May 2010
 * coalition, born of failure, may make the new politics succeed'' - David Cameron is doing the right deed - as long as he is not doing it for the wrong reason - 15th May 2010
 * BBC's worst scandal lies in our courts'' - Charles Moore went to court for refusing to buy a TV licence and discovered that the corporation has no mercy - 11th May 2010
 * Election 2010: Politics isn't broken - voters are getting the big change they want'' - This election hasn’t killed off the old parties, it is sharpening them up - 8th May 2010 (General Election 2010)
 * Election 2010: Gordon Brown was undone by the media, not Gillian Duffy'' - New Labour was born by understanding and manipulating the modern media; now the same phenomenon is killing off Gordon Brown - 3rd May 2010
 * Election 2010: David Cameron is on top – now he has to fight for a mandate'' - If voters really do not mind whether the election produces a clear result, then the Tories have lost - 1st May 2010
 * Election 2010: The strange death of the election interview'' - Election Watch: Charles Moore charts the decline in the power of the big interviewer - as politicians become more skilled at avoiding saying anything interesting - 26th April 2010
 * Election 2010: the ash has cleared, and the momentum is still with Clegg'' - The Tories can recapture the initiative by playing the ball rather than the man - 24th April 2010
 * is the hoped-for internet subversion?'' - Election Watch: Charles Moore doubts it will be plain sailing for David Cameron in the first-ever televised leaders' debate on Thursday - 12th April 2010
 * voters will cross the box marked hope'' - As the first week's campaigning ends, Charles Moore finds something stirring in the student undergrowth - 10th April 2010
 * a Church there would be very little Christianity'' - Those who praise Jesus but attack his organisation are missing out on so much - 3rd April 2010
 * are in danger of ignoring Britain’s real debt disaster'' - Voters owe too much money for politicians to dare to tell the truth about it - 27th March 2010
 * Unite's socialists be Cameron's stormtroopers?'' - The Tories have been slow to make capital out of Labour's militant union allies - 20th March 2010
 * it comes to education, the past is our future'' - Child-centred learning is turning out school-leavers without the skills for life - 13th March 2010
 * was a good man, but he was also a dupe of the KGB'' - There is evidence that the Labour stalwart took Moscow's gold for years - 6th March 2010
 * the joy of a political humiliation'' - BBC 4's 'The Secret Treasury' helped one remember that what Gordon Brown did was not an honest mistake, but a series of dishonest ones - 2nd March 2010
 * broke and broken - the Tory campaign is fixable'' - The Conservatives have still not explained why the economy isn’t safe with Labour - 27th February 2010
 * the grumblers, David Cameron is following in a noble tradition'' - The Conservative Party leader is succeeding by promising change - just like Margaret Thatcher - 20th February 2010
 * Mohamed: The judges are tying our hands in the fight against terrorism'' - The Appeal Court's judgment in the Binyam Mohamed case is a blow to our national interest - 12th February 2010
 * that stop an Englishman from having his castle are insane'' - Our refusal to allow enough new homes to be built is an attack on future generations - 6th February 2010
 * is unpopular, but it is the best way to beat terrorism'' - Tony Blair understood the scale of the terrorist threat, and the most effective way of preventing attacks is to target the most suspicious - 30th January 2010
 * real crime was ignoring the Cabinet, not starting a war'' - The former PM should definitely be brought to task next week - but not for the reasons his haters demand - 23rd January 2010
 * time for politicians to cower behind the safety of silence'' - Exciting new thoughts? None.Those who seek to represent us are mute puppets - 16th January 2010
 * Ross's exit is a victory for all those who refused to 'move on''' - There are wider lessons to be learned from the Jonathan Ross's decline and fall - 9th January 2010
 * human rights culture has now become a tyranny'' - The Supreme Court this week effectively made the Jewish religion illegal - 19th December 2009
 * have never worked so hard and learnt so little'' - For all the time and money put in, the education system is fundamentally flawed - 12th December 2009
 * Lord Snooty is the ideal role model for David Cameron'' - To win the Class War, the Tory leader has to show that he’s the right kind of posh - 5th December 2009
 * taste for the high life is not all that sets Mandelson apart'' - The Business Secretary's ambitions have both elevated and undermined him - 28th November 2009
 * power will make Britain the dirty old man of Europe'' - Onshore wind as an energy source is expensive, unreliable and will scar the landscape - 21st November 2009
 * war is necessary, so why aren't we trying harder to win?'' - The campaign in Afghanistan is being let down by weak leadership, on both sides of the Atlantic - 7th November 2009
 * nasty tactics have shoved Cameron into the mire'' - The Tories still don't know how to react when attacked - 31st October
 * smug leaders have done nothing to see off the BNP'' - Politicians ignore the grievances that allow twerps like Griffin to thrive - 24th October 2009
 * nothing swivel-eyed about rebuilding Britain's democracy'' - A maverick Tory has the right idea - putting voters back in charge of their MPs - 18th October 2009
 * was wrong about Dannatt'' - Gen Sir Richard Dannatt's appointment was a political gimmick that is already starting to unravel - 10th October 2009
 * Tories have a class problem – but it's not the one you think'' - The Cameron team has positioned itself with care, but voters have little time for the political elite - 3rd October 2009
 * is not a matter of kit, but of attitude'' - The Tories should make more of the uncertainty that confronts our world - 26th September 2009
 * Queen Mother could lead in a way that our politicians cannot'' - The late Queen Elizabeth was an exceptional individual with great leadership qualities - 19th September 2009
 * be tougher than Thatcher: what Cameron can't quite say'' - The Tory leader is a good enough communicator to know when to shut up - 12th September 2009
 * leadership that once won wars is missing in action'' - Britain's decline owes much to a Government that undermines its military forces - 8th August 2009
 * the judges are using a hard case to make bad law'' - The Law Lords' verdict on assisted suicide paves the way for dangerous decisions - 1st August 2009
 * Cameron is a brilliant party leader – but will it be enough?'' - Norwich North shows that the voters have fallen out of love with Labour, but too many don't feel the need to vote Tory - 25th July 2009
 * in reverse: how the media are beating the defeatist drum in Afghanistan'' - Every death is dreadfully sad, but our troops have been "in theatre" for eight years, and fewer than 200 have died. We lost 20,000 on the first day of the battle of the Somme - 18th July 2009
 * BBC: No, you can’t have my £142.50. Will I see you in court?'' - I will only change my mind if the corporation ends Jonathan Ross’s contract - 11th July 2009
 * the gift we treasure most, yet refuse to bestow on others'' - Why does an educated, prosperous society choose not to reproduce itself - 4th July 2009
 * can we rescue Britain from a nervous breakdown?'' - A change of government is essential - but it will take more than that to arrest the decline of Britain - 27th June 2009
 * needs to be forceful in using 'soft power' against Iran'' - It is in the West's interests to help the millions of Iranians trying to throw off a crushing clerical regime - 20th June 2009
 * can't MPs speak up, and Gordon Brown pipe down?'' - We don't need many new laws to reform Parliament, just the will to change - 13th June 2009
 * raging storm that turned Labour into a nervous wreck'' - The chaos in Gordon Brown's cabinet is a direct consequence of the expenses scandal - 6th June 2009
 * expenses: Now is the time to obliterate the professional political class'' - Our only chance to force reform out of MPs is before an election - 23rd May 2009 (see: MPs' expenses: summary)
 * House of Commons is ours, not theirs. Don't ruin it, reclaim it'' - Our thirst for revenge over the expenses scandal is understandable but there is an alternative - 16th May 2009
 * expenses: We've been paying too much for Labour's morality for too long'' - Tory sleaze' was the party's great theme, but now the muck has been spread across Westminster - 9th May 2009
 * only Joanna Lumley would fight Labour's idea of equality'' - The Equality Bill allows the Government to hit any institution whose social composition it dislikes - 2nd May 2009
 * Thatcher's battle for lower taxes must be fought again'' - As we approach the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's government, we must remember the lessons she taught - 25th April 2009
 * house of prosperity may yet be a castle in the air'' - He feels like the right man to be President, but has he come at the right time - 18th April 2009
 * doubt Tony Blair would have saved Jesus - then where would we be?'' - Mr Blair revived Labour, now he's bidding for the Papacy. But some things are bigger than even he can encompass - 11th April 2009
 * to America to lead us out of the recession'' - The nation that inspired Churchill in 1929 holds the key to recovery once again - 4th April 2009
 * King's timely lesson in economics for Gordon Brown'' - Mervyn King took a risk by saying no to the Prime Minister, but he was right to do so - 28th March 2009
 * Cameron needs to be both angry and compassionate'' - The Conservative Party should study the lessons of the Thatcher years if they are to win convincingly at the next General Election - 21st March 2009
 * you're fighting terrorists, 'the vast majority' is not enough'' - Whether in Northern Ireland or among Britain's Muslims, extremists will exploit the reasonable majority - 14th March 2009
 * took exceptional brilliance not to see a crash coming...'' - . . . but the clever people who got us into this mess now have more power than ever - 7th March 2009
 * Britain! Jeremy Paxman finally gets the point'' - Despite his superior attitude to our forebears in The Victorians, Jeremy Paxman can't help but be captivated - 3rd March 2009
 * child's death, however sad, should not close the Commons'' - Not surprisingly, the media reports of the political reaction to the death of David Cameron's son, showed a House of Commons united. But, in fact, this was not so - 28th February 2009
 * (rocky) Road to the London Summit, starring Gordon Brown'' - How can the world put itself to rights when the nations wobble - 21st February 2009
 * Wilders plays into the hands of our Islamist enemies'' - The Home Secretary should instead stop the advocates of violence from entering Britain - 14th February 2009
 * workers realise that Brown can't deliver the goods'' - His promises on jobs were hollow and the PM has much less power than he pretends - 7th February 2009
 * did the bobby turn into the slobby?'' - will Sir Paul Stephenson can transform the modern, unfit, thuggish-looking policeman back into something to be proud of? - 31st January 2009
 * Brown's policy is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions'' - The Prime Minister must know that nationalisation of the banks would be a nightmare, and yet this outcome seems increasingly likely - 24th January 2009
 * Ross epitomises our society's declining standards'' - In bringing back the disgraced presenter, the BBC betrays the values it is paid to uphold - 17th January 2009
 * after you have saved the world, Mr Brown, what then?'' - Barack Obama sees the dangers in his own plan. But does our Prime Minister? - 10th January 2009
 * was a golden Elizabethan Age – we won't see its like again'' - As 2009 begins, does it strike you that we have lived for decades in a golden age? Almost certainly not - 3rd January 2009
 * of this year's greetings shows change is on the cards'' - Tonight, our family will play our traditional Christmas card game. The rules are simple. You deal out all the Christmas cards received, in equal hands. Each player takes it in turn to set the category for each round - 27th December 2008
 * would show us Christmas cheer'' - With the credit crisis haunting this Christmas, now is the perfect time to revert tomore traditional values - 20th December 2008
 * abuse of Parliament led to raid'' - the party's destructive hatred for British traditions has undermined parliamentary democracy, (the Damian Green affair) - 6th December 2008
 * massacre is a warning to Britain'' - The events in India are linked to our past and are bound to have a knock-on effect on relations with Muslims closer to home - 29th November 2008
 * BBC was too scared to sack Ross'' - the Sachs affair was part of a pathology; like the moment a normally well behaved alcoholic vomits at a party, it was bound to happen sometime - 22nd November 2008
 * PM says 'trust me' but he should trust us'' - If even the wisest don't know how to solve the economic crisis, politicians should stop pretending they do - 15th November 2008
 * should take heart from Obama'' - America's President-Elect might be a Democrat, but he has plenty to say that appeals to the Right in his own country and in Britain - 8th November 2008
 * Ross's theatre of cruelty must be stopped with BBC licence fee boycott'' - Politicians will not dare propose the abolition of the BBC licence fee, but there is one fashion in which every disgusted fee-payer can register a protest - 1st November 2008
 * world has changed: David Cameron and George Osborne must change with it'' - why Tory MPs failed to rally round the beleaguered shadow chancellor in his hour of need - 25th October 2008
 * us all rebuild the respectable society'' - The notion of solving our problems by giving more power to the people who caused them is misguided - 18th October 2008
 * need strong politics to tackle crisis'' - Gordon Brown should be careful he does not go down as another Chamberlain - 11th October 2008
 * dark arts are not enough'' - David Cameron was right to learn from Tony Blair and his friend, but these difficult times call for a new approach - 4th October 2008
 * forgotten men of the financial crisis'' - 27th September 2008
 * catharsis in the politics of gloom'' - Our leaders will have to turn to grey-sky thinking to find the solution to the financial crisis - 20th September 2008
 * much more appealing to British'' - The Democratic candidate's CV is so good that it is off-putting to large sections of the population - 13th September 2008
 * World, One Dream: China is in the Olympic Games to win'' - Yesterday's Olympic opening ceremony shows that the Chinese are happy to glorify their own culture (so long as communism doesn't get a mention - 9th August 2008
 * we can afford decent clothes, why do we not wear them?'' - The freedom to dress as we choose is a fine thing, but there is a price to be paid when it affects other people - 2nd August 2008

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Articles: 2013

 * A journey down the branches of Burke’s oak - British conservatism – the Grand Tour (Radio 4) - 9th September
 * Lessons of a dynasty mired in blood and faith - Tudor by Leanda de Lisle (Chatto and Windus) - 2nd September
 * A sentimental view of the working classes - Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain (BBC One) - 19th August
 * This West Coast Bard makes modern sense - Much Ado About Nothing (12A) - 8th July
 * Drinking deep from an ancient well of wisdom - With modern, idiomatic, yet timeless clarity, Harry Eyres translates many of Horace’s greatest poems into new English ones - 30th June
 * We need more babies if we’re to bounce back - When the Money Runs Out by Stephen D King (Yale) - 24th June
 * Little things that made it big in the Fifties - Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59 by David Kynaston (Bloomsbury) - 10th June
 * A faithful film – and a terribly, terribly bad one - The Great Gatsby, Dir: Baz Luhrmann - 20th May
 * The first important conservative thinker - Edmund Burke by Jesse Norman (William Collins) - 6th May
 * A different way of looking at life and love - The Conversations by Olivia Fane (Square Peg) - 29th April
 * There’s no match for Angela 'Merkiavelli’ - 'German Europe’ by Ulrich Beck (Polity) - 1st April
 * You can’t capture majesty without terror - The Audience (Gielgud Theatre); Our Queen (ITV) - 18th March
 * Latin inspired the standard for all poetry - How to Read a Latin Poem by William Fitzgerald (OUP) - 4th March
 * The PM who lived and died by television - Harold Wilson Night (BBC Parliament) - 18th February
 * A moment of history subsumed in censure - An English Affair by Richard Davenport-Hines (Harper Press) - 21st January



Articles: 2012

 * The hidden meaning of a piece of folded card - Christmas cards - 24th December
 * The Neville Chamberlain of Middle Earth - Puzzled by the tendency of foreigners to fight, Tolkien's hobbit does his best to sort things out - 18th December
 * I fear this director comes to bury Caesar - Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse) - 10th December
 * Where there's art, there's always bronze - 'Bronze' at the Royal Academy - 26th November
 * Churchill’s insight into what really mattered - Churchill and Company by David Dilks (IB Tauris) - 12th November
 * The wit and warmth of our royal correspondent - Counting One’s Blessings: the Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - 5th November
 * A small royal saga, and a blow to spirituality - A valuable place of worship is being allowed to wither as a result of very modern pressures - 30th October
 * Douglas Carswell: How technology will create true democracy - 'The End of Politics' by Douglas Carswell shows how connectedness is a force for good - 21st October
 * Getting emotional is nothing to cry about - Ian Hislop’s Stiff Upper Lip (BBC Two) - 15th October
 * A tragically comic account of a Prodigal Son - Dear Lupin by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer (Constable) - 13th August
 * An insider’s exposé of Islamist extremism - Radical by Maajid Nawaz (W H Allen) - 30th July
 * The tale of Tuggy Tug and our welfare state - Among the Hoods by Harriet Sergeant (Faber & Faber) - 16th July
 * The ever-changing Napoleons of Notting Hill - The Secret History of Our Streets (BBC) - 2nd July
 * Why Tesco could teach No 10 a thing or two - Management in 10 Words by Terry Leahy (Random House) - 25th June
 * Dozens of dainty dishes set before the Queen - Cook for The Queen - 18th June
 * Enoch Powell still speaks to us today - Enoch at 100, edited by Greville Howard (Biteback) - 11th June
 * A blessed plot – but who does it belong to? - Green Gold by Peter Clery (Phillimore & Co) - 21st May
 * The minister who put his principles first - Confessions of a Eurosceptic, by David Heathcoat-Amory - 14th May
 * A dismal decade when defeat was in the air - The Seventies (BBC Two) - 23rd April
 * A brave telling of the Koran’s human stories - In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland (Little, Brown) - 16th April
 * Home-grown freedoms are the strongest - 'Can We Talk About This?' at the Lyttelton - 20th March
 * Can a gentleman hero still play it straight? - Charles Moore reviews The Captain Oates centenary - 12th March
 * Soft furnishings and split infinitives - Gwynne’s Grammar at Selfridges - 5th March
 * Bragg keeps us guessing on the class war - Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture (BBC Two) - 27th February
 * Keynes’s wisdom is perfect for the eurozone - The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - 20th February
 * When patriotism is an unrequited love - Uncommon Enemy by Alan Judd (Simon and Schuster) - 12th February
 * Our first and favourite literary superstar - Two centuries after his birth, Dickens’s zeal for publicity remains almost unmatched - 6th February
 * Religion's usefulness is drawn from its truth - Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton (Hamish Hamilton) - 30th January
 * The visionary queen who made our nation - Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset (Harper Press) - 23rd January
 * Crying shame of a film that falls at the first - Steven Spielberg's War Horse - 16th January
 * Schools that dared to liberate their pupils - The Grammar School: A Secret History - 9th January

Articles: 2011

 * The priest who thought Stalin was a saint - 'The Red Dean' by John Butler (Scala) - 26th December
 * The BBC makes a meal of the EU dream - Beyond Borders (Radio 4) - 19th December
 * Attenborough stumbles on the melting ice - the final episode of Frozen Planet, BBC1 - 12th December
 * A gift for winning they brought to the party - The Conservatives: A History by Robin Harris (Bantam Press) - 13th November
 * A homage to Hergé that is too adventurous - The new Tintin film is visually dazzling, but dazzle is not the highest virtue in film-making - 7th November
 * Down with this cult of not-so-Merrie England - Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth at the Apollo Theatre - 24th October
 * Giving the people’s Bible back to the people - Sixty-Six Books at the Bush Theatre - 17th October
 * By the time we're told all is well, all is wrong - Boomerang by Michael Lewis (Allen Lane) - 10th October
 * The Fear Index: A day in the life of the death of capitalism - The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Hutchinson) - 3rd October
 * Empire snobbery kept order worldwide'' - Ghosts of Empireby Kwasi Kwarteng (Bloomsbury) - 29th August
 * will the BBC ever tell the truth about Anthony Blunt?'' - Charles Moore reviews an edition of The Reunion (Radio 4) that focused on the disgraced art critic and his treachery - 22nd August
 * Cowles: The American who saw Britain at its best'' - Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles (Faber) - 15th August
 * Keynes! The party's well and truly over'' - Keynes vs Hayek (Radio 4) - 8th August
 * College, Cambridge: A talent for nurturing the life of the mind'' - Trinity, a Portrait ed. by Edward Stourton and John Lonsdale (Third Millennium Publishing) - 1st August
 * your bad English, the King 'don’t like it’'' - Charles Moore reviews The King’s English by Kingsley Amis and is struck by the writer's love of his language - 4th July
 * to restore the spirit of Fleming Boys'' - When Wesley Went to Winchester (Radio 4) - 27th June
 * unique guide to Spain’s catholic tastes'' - Christopher Howse is excellent at bringing out certain characteristics of Spain - 20th June
 * summer magic of country-house opera'' - Garsington Opera at Wormsley - 13th June
 * English obsession with all things foreign'' - Charles Moore reviews Treason of the Heart by David Pryce-Jones (Encounter Books) and learns that the great self-hating project for clever English people is the European Union - 6th June
 * frank, frustrated man in Afghanistan'' - Cables from Kabul by Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles - 30th May
 * meeting of minds for James Boswell and Samuel Johnson'' - Charles Moore is delighted that The Boswell Book Festival is devoted to the subject of biography - 16th May
 * 'Supermac’ supervised our decline'' - The Macmillan Diaries Volume II - 9th May
 * eyes might smile at last on the Queen'' - Crown and Shamrok by Mary Kenny - 2nd May
 * has dulled Alan Bennett's satirical edge'' - Smut by Alan Bennett - 25th April
 * masterpieces in miniature'' - The Petrified Music of Architecture at the Sir John Soane's Museum - 18th April
 * at one with the common man'' - John Howard’s career – and his book – are invaluable guides to anyone interested in how conservatism today can win - 11th April
 * simple art of an Extremely Deceptive poet'' - Family Values by Wendy Cope - 4th April
 * the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots'' - Radio 4's The Reunion is an unilluminating and biased perspective on the Brixton riots - 28th March
 * fitting to be left speechless with emotion'' - The cumulative effect of Flare Path is to convince one that war, with all its dangers and loss, earns one the right to feel - 21st March
 * Ferguson's shirtsleeves inspection of how the West won'' - It's perverse not to recognise in the civilisation of Europe the most successful and fascinating adventure in the history of mankind - 14th March
 * reverend rough and ready for anything'' - Charles Moore discovers a 'local author' memoir that vividly depicts rural poverty in the 19th century - 7th March
 * Jerusalem in all its terrible beauty'' - Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore - 28th February
 * your enemies too close for comfort'' - 'A Mosque in Munich' by Ian Johnson (HMH) - 21st February
 * Grit: Sharp shooters draw the best out of the West'' - The Coen brothers are alive to what American film can really do - 14th February
 * language police are a force for good'' - Anyone interested in the English language and its history should read 'The Language Wars' - 31st January
 * British Muslim who would rather talk'' - In 'Wandering Lonely in a Crowd’, S M Atif Imtiaz's desire for genuine discussion about Islam in Britain is striking and compelling - 24th January
 * Jewish boy's profound faith in England'' - John Gross had both a literary sensibility and a Jewish one - 17th January
 * King's Speech : A stiff upper lip served our country very well'' - Never before have I seen so clearly depicted just how awful it is to be the British monarch - 10th January
 * Slater's 'Toast' (BBC1): The over-egging of a perfectly good pudding'' - In the BBC version, the grotesques were even more heightened than in the original - 3rd January



Articles: 2010

 * not only royalty who need to speak proper'' - The King’s Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi - 6th December
 * actors losing the wit to portray the past?'' - The Rivals at Theatre Royal Haymarket should have offered a perfect evening out - 29th November
 * Points: For all his honesty, George W Bush still baffles us'' - George W Bush never really explains why he wanted to be president, how he got elected, or what he meant to do when he got there - 16th November 2010
 * and the wonder of 'words, words, words’'' - Charles Moore reviews Hamlet at the Olivier (National Theatre) starring Rory Kinnear - 1st November
 * television put poetry on the menu?'' - Charles Moore reviews The Song of Lunch (BBC2) and hopes there will be more shots at turning poems into television - 11th October
 * Special Relationship (BBC2): The deviousness of a straight sort of guy'' - Despite Bill Clinton's doubts, Tony Blair has been essentially honest about his political views - 20th September
 * Mitford's wonderful misery memoir'' - Charles Moore finds 'Wait for Me!' by Deborah Devonshire to be a misery memoir, but of the very best kind - 13th September
 * vast, loyal band of working-class Conservatives'' - Charles Moore reviews 'A Gift from the Churchills' by Alistair Cooke and discovers the secret of the Primrose League's success - 6th September
 * timely recounting of the Weimar disaster that aided Hitler's rise to power'' - The Weimar story is a lesson from history - what can happen when a nation follows the wrong economic doctrine - 2nd August 2010
 * Pooh can do, Buzz can do better'' - Charles Moore reviews Toy Story 3 and finds it deeper and more ambitious than many English classics - 26th July
 * Newman was much more than a 'reluctant saint''' - 'Newman's Unquiet Grave' by John Cornwell is a highly readable attempt to understand John Henry Newman - 19th July
 * gentleman and a scholar, or just a good story?'' - 'Hugh Trevor-Roper' by Adam Sisman - 12th July
 * terrible beauty of machines built to kill'' - Charles Moore reviews Harrier and Jaguar at the Tate Britain and is not at all surprised to find beauty in the corpses of two jet fighters - 6th July
 * largely academic view of British bawdy'' - 'Rude Britannia' (BBC 4) was ruined by the eggheads - 26th June
 * Commons no longer provides model debate'' - Charles Moore reviews Intelligence Squared, and laments the decline of proper parliamentary debate - 7th June 2010
 * exceptional woman's rejection of Islam'' - Charles Moore reviews 'Nomad' by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and finds the author's view of Islam convincing - and depressing - 1st June
 * of God and windows on our history'' - Charles Moore reviews 'The Old Rectory’ by Anthony Jennings and relishes this unique and remarkable piece of our national patrimony - 10th May
 * is the loser in these TV debates'' - Election Watch: The televised leader debates have narrowed the field of argument - 19th April
 * secret life of the man who wasn't there'' - the spirit of Tony Blair pervades The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski's new film - 6th April
 * faith bring back the Prodigal Brother?'' - 'The Rage Against God’ by Peter Hitchens shows how extraordinarily complicated everything to do with religion is - 30th March
 * creeps back on to English lawns'' - 'Trials of the Diaspora’ by Anthony Julius and finds the author's vigilance justified - 23rd March
 * Assurance: a jolly romp through town and country'' - Charles Moore is impressed by a new production of London Assurance, whose caricatures are extreme but oddly realistic - 16th March
 * lesson in liberty from the land of the free'' - 'The Cracked Bell' by Tristram Riley-Smith misses something important in the nature of America - 9th March 2010
 * medieval insight into today’s strange world'' - Charles Moore savours the extraordinary scholarship and lack of egotism in The Book of Praises, part of the artist Roger Wagner's project to illustrate all 150 psalms - 23rd February
 * Wild Places of Essex: No laughing matter on the Essex marshes'' - Essex shows that nature can flourish near the busy haunts of men - 16th February
 * is not a social illness to be 'cured''' - 'The Spirit Level' by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett - 9th February
 * sense of Heaven and Hell'' - Out of fear, or hope, or intellectual curiosity, we cannot wholly avoid imagining Heaven and Hell; reviewing 'After Lives' by John Casey - 2nd February
 * Paxman and Co still don't tell the whole story'' - 30 years of 'Newsnight' - 26th January
 * of Arabia's legacy and the paradox of power'' - 'The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia' (Saturday, BBC Two) - 19th January
 * journey to the heart of Transylvania'' - 'The Transylvanian Trilogy' by Miklós Bánffy - 12th January
 * Try a dip into 'Who's Who''' - Charles Moore reviews 'Who's Who' - 5th January



Articles: 2009

 * treasure-trove of the glories of the hunt'' - 'Baily's Hunting Directory' - 22nd December
 * is a bright side to life, David Attenborough'' - Charles Moore reviews Horizon (BBC 2) and finds David Attenborough's message about population short-sighted - 15th December
 * Marr's 'The Making of Modern Britain': Marrxist view of history is all so predictable'' - 8th December
 * Lawson on climate change: 'Saving' the planet will be the real disaster'' - 'An Appeal to Reason’ by Nigel Lawson - 2nd December
 * David Cameron was inspired by Neville Chamberlain'' - Charles Moore reviews Tory policy-making: The Conservative Research Department 1929-2009, which reveals the seedbed of Tory social concern - 24th November
 * Haslam's 'Redeeming Features''' - A life devoted to looking the part - 10th November
 * Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a patronising and ignorant piece of history'' - History is surely an unprejudiced inquiry into past times. Andrew Marr treats it as a court martial - 3rd November
 * misjudged 'Emma' is a pedant's dream'' - BBC One's 'Emma' - 27th October
 * words drew a picture of Parliament'' - 'The Best Seat in the House' by Frank Johnson - 20th October
 * subversion that can't be laughed off'' - 'The Defence of the Realm' by Christopher Andrew - 13th October
 * the trail of the great unwrecked'' - 'Unwrecked England', a tribute to the enduring pleasures of villages, cathedrals and abbeys -
 * Mabey, a writer dropping down to see the natural world'' - 'The Scientist and the Romantic' on Radio 3 - 29th September
 * G Wodehouse will always have the last laugh'' - 'Plum Pie' at Heywood Hill - 22nd September
 * martyr who turned love into the divine'' - 'John Bradburne on Love' - 15th September
 * romantic history of the British army that stirs the blood'' - 'The Making of the British Army' by Allan Mallinson. - 8th September
 * reflections on a passionate past'' - 'Penultimata' by Robert Conquest - 4th August
 * true art in the temple of the hounds'' - Everything about foxhounds is very artistic - 28th July
 * unreal power of opera to fly free'' - Rusalka at Glyndebourne - 21st July
 * are safe with the Garden Room Girls'' - ‘The Garden Room Girls' (BBC Radio 4), is a programme about Downing Street's typists who embody the British tradition of modesty and discretion - 14th July
 * a light on the magic of the coronation in Westminster Abbey'' - reviewing the plans for Westminster Abbey - 7th July
 * Seldon: the thinker with free markets in his blood'' - Review: Arthur Seldon's economic ideas inspired Margaret Thatcher. Her successors should pay him closer attention - 30th June
 * today could do with a jolly good duel'' - 'Pistols at Dawn' by John Campbell - 23rd June
 * stones that speak for themselves'' - Richard Long: Heaven and Earth at theTate Britain - 16th June
 * and society will never mix well'' - 'God is Back' by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge - 8th June
 * The Battle for Normandy: fear and cruelty in sun-dappled orchards'' - 'D-Day: The Battle for Normandy' by Antony Beevor - 2nd June
 * institution we can all have faith in'' - 'Church and State in 21st-century Britain', edited by R M Morris - 19th May
 * grand duchess of rare style and authority'' - 'Home to Roost' by Deborah Devonshire - 12th May
 * the daisies and how they grow'' - 'Weeds and Wild Flowers' by Alice Oswald - 5th May
 * of Play confirms journalists are not at their best in an heroic mould'' - Newspapers evoke an inescapable nostalgia but that does not mean they are the only route to the truth - 28th April
 * ignorance can be exhilarating'' - the new Utagwa Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Royal Academy in London - 7th April
 * Apprentice: This is capitalism's Theatre of the Absurd'' - It is time for Sir Alan's famous finger to point at himself - 31st March
 * miners' strike was not a civil war, whatever Arthur Scargill hoped'' - 'Marching to the Fault Line' by Francis Beckett and David Hencke - 24th March
 * thrive on their trip to the seaside'' - The Aldeburgh Literary Festival - 10th March 2009
 * Great Britain! Paxo finally gets the point - Despite his superior attitude to our forebears in The Victorians, Jeremy Paxman can't help but be captivated - 3rd March 2009
 * the lower middle classes who own England'' - the BBC series 'Sissinghurst' - 24th February
 * unbearable pointlessness of subversion'' - Altermodern at Tate Britain - 17th February
 * people would fight for Parliament today'' - Charles Moore reviews The English Civil Wars by Blair Worden, and questions who would defend democracy in today's political climate - 10th February
 * now we know what’s truly offensive'' - In sacking Carol Thatcher for saying 'golliwog’ while off air, but allowing Jonathan Ross to remain in his job, the BBC has revealed its contempt for those who are forced to fund it - 5th February
 * Darwin wasn't an enemy of Christianity'' - Charles Moore reviews Darwin and God by Nick Spencer and wonders what the Christian narrative is now - 3rd February
 * Road: It's just snobbery to say the suburbs lack passion'' - Charles Moore reviews Revolutionary Road and wonders why creative people are so down on the suburbs - 27th January
 * Burns: Obvious, feckless - but a genius, for a' that'' - Scotland's national poet is a role model for all men who confuse behaving badly with being a creative genius - 20th January



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