Steve Morris recalls the iconic Oxford Street basement club which has housed London’s evolving music scene since the Second World War

Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy

Myanmar’s new draft cybersecurity law could have grave consequences for civil rights and freedom of expression

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective

From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?

Ethiopia, the home of coffee, falls apart under the world’s muddled gaze while Portugal implements arbitrary Covid-19 restrictions on caffeine consumption

Women like Loujain al-Hathloul are “premature reformers”: their crime is to demand social change before the state is ready to concede it

Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak

George Shultz, a long-term Secretary of State of the Reagan administration, has died at the age of 100

Musical theatre is one of Britain’s most prized assets; we must protect this unique part of our culture and economy at all costs