Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
The joys of getting down with the grandkids
Campaigners for inter-generational justice miss the mark
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
In praise of meritocracy
Grammar schools, Tony Crosland and the Encounter club
Michel Foucault: the prophet of pederasty
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
Resurrect Reagan
In the wake of Trump, US conservatives must regain the moral high ground
Beware of trans affirmation therapy
The feminist fix: Empower teenage girls, rather than telling them who they are
Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
Russians … thousands of them!
Labour goes bear hunting for oligarchs
Is banning conversion therapy legal?
Government plans still have serious questions of law to answer
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
When is suicide not suicide?
The vulnerable need our support, not lethal drugs
Starmer’s hypocrisy
“Beergate” is just the latest chapter in the Labour leader’s cynical political career
Small town radio
Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death
A quiet revolution
Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up