The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start

The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce

Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice

Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray

For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation

American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation 

The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians

The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state

Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations

What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?

The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees

The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism

The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked

As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors

Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled

Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence

Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised

A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit

This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book

Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city

A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk

Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland

Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one

Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024

Does maestro talent run in the genes?

Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess

Refuse to play the poverty card

This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life

On the complex relationship between art and money

Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak