The government’s Online Safety Bill will make us more like the autocracies that propagate disinformation

The Doms of Navarone

Ways to improve the Brexit deal without compromising on sovereignty

Ed Balls’ presence in public life is a welcome reminder that sometimes there can be a second act for former politicians

Thérèse Coffey defends Downing Street’s home furnishing revamp

Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?

The Duke of Edinburgh’s genius was to ensure that the more the Royal family changed, the more it appeared to remain the same

Only a tiny minority of independence movements have been both peaceful and successful

Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history

Dan Hitchens weighs the charge sheet against baby boomers, who stand accused of creating a precarious world of low pay and endless work

Daniel Johnson says the fact that Foucault scholars now overlook his advocacy for sex with boys shows the great libertine failed to overturn Judaeo-Christian morality

TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives

The truth about woke witchhunts is that there is no ethic of forgiveness in this religion

When we set up the Reclaim Party, we met every type of establishment obstacle

Ageing controversialist

Beyond the embellishments of Alan Duncan’s private diaries lies a body of work making serious points about the role of parliament

James Stevens Curl reveals how this new release provides amazing insight into the household of a well-heeled, cultured European in late eighteenth-century India

Alexander Adams delves into two new books that examine the art theft of occupying armies in two different ages

Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one

A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller

Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema

I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy

Michael Prodger tracks the story of a lost masterpiece

Claudia Savage-Gore
blames the tutors for the darlings’ home- schooling problems

Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines

Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business

Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf