11 OCTOBER 2003, page 23

Jacques De Gaulle

Jonathan Fenby says the French President is a single-minded nationalist who is not at all popular in Brussels T here is a new bull in the European china shop. Gone are the days......

Theodore Dalrymple

The search for the good has been replaced by the desire for the nice. Appearance is more real to us than any reality, and deeper judgments have become not only unfashionable but......