Why are our universities in decline?

Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London

Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act

Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future

More women should realise that “inclusivity” should not come before freedom

Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again

Beware a politician who has a book to sell

The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob

People can put down their phones for the duration of concert

Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa

Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for

Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first

We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban

Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania

The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success

This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long

Rishi has been a bit down lately

Some have the granddaddy knack

We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law

Small human moments cut across the centuries

We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars

Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?

Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his

The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition

A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee

Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked

We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore

These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six

On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots

People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?