Britain and America are unusually vulnerable, for the same progressive reasons

A good Bond song should include swooning strings, stabbing horns and a chorus the size of the moon, explains Sarah Ditum

Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger

Patrick Galbraith says hunting would benefit youngsters

C. S. Lewis has been revered as a writer but overlooked as a philosopher

The BBC thought Malcolm Arnold’s opera was not serious enough and a bit bawdy

Opera was the tinder of Renaissance Venice, says Robert Thicknesse

Reject the joyless nursery arithmetic of cookbooks, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto

What explains the House speaker’s attack on British regulation?

A benign trip to hospital offered a stark reminder that consciousness hangs by a deathly thread