Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game