Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
How Europe slowly came to terms with the Holocaust
And with what shifting emphasis do different countries remember the crime? Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss
What does Black Lives Matter mean for Africa?
BLM have few words for the continent with the largest number of vulnerable black lives
Pleasures of sex and berries
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Canada’s new Conservative leader
Will Erin O’Toole be able to unite Canada’s fragmented Conservative party?
Health and safety
Nick Cohen says streets must be safe for active lifestyles to flourish
Who backed the backstop?
No one wants to own Boris’s Northern Ireland Protocol