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Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist

This is the question Jordan Peterson tried to answer in his celebrated return to Cambridge

The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion

We need to restore a sense of generational solidarity

Hip-hop has its place, but not necessarily on an alternative daytime radio station

If UK ministers are not at liberty to defend the Union, then Northern Ireland is not genuinely British

Calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art

The modern hegemony of the “liberal professions” has become one of the principal challenges to liberal democracy

At this year’s series, bubbles will mean not Veuve Clicquot but protocols designed to ensure that the ball is all anyone catches Down Under