The strange and startling events at Fatima continue to intrigue and haunt as the Catholic Church wrestles against the liberalising world order

Elgar works best when a conductor appears to do least

For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing

English nationalism is returning from its long slumber, ready to stand proud once again

Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea

Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about French reforms and continuities from Georges Pompidou to Francois Hollande.

How a London loneliness charity excluded an old man for not conforming to its anti-racist agenda

MAGA cultists are leading the Republicans into unreality

The British intelligentsia as a class has failed in the most public way possible to defend free speech

The Protocol is strangling Northern Ireland’s economy and damaging the DUP’s re-election chances. What will Boris Johnson do about it?