The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council

With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common

The dash for wind energy is a generational folly that will see the nation’s economic future sacrifi cedon the altar of Net Zero

The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe

The public cannot be trusted to vote properly

Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?

Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human

The Narnia author deserves to be remembered as a seer and a sage

The cerebral Old Etonian podcaster might be a deep thinker and was possibly even a spy but he lacks the substance to be a great political leader

The “bohemian efficiency” of the unit that has honed the political skills of generations of Conservative big beasts