Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival

Activists are secretly training the judiciary to misapply the law

His concerto is a rag-and-bone man’s barrow trundling down a Haussmann boulevard

Professor Jeremy Black rounds up the best autumnal reads that are successful in grounding a sense of place

Did peace prevail in the World Wars thanks to providential deliverance, or just a number of very fortunate occurrences?

The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology

Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention

Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories

The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken

The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction