Charles Moore



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Full name: Charles Hilary Moore

Area of interest: Society, Politics, Media

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

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Website: Telegraph.co / Charles Moore

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Biography:
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: Commentator

Other posts: Chairman of the Policy Exchange think tank; Trustee of the Prayer Book Society

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?

TV/Radio:
 * BBC Radio 4's Any Questions?, July 2007 (transcript)

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

Future works: Is engaged in writing the authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, see article: The mellowing of Margaret Thatcher; see also: Matthew Tempest, News Blog: Ex editors Cross Swords over Thatcher ref: Simon Jenkins

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The Daily Telegraph:
Column remit: 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:

 * 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: 2011

 * 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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