England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
