Artillery Row
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Cancelling Christians
Billy Graham wouldn’t be welcomed into Britain today
Vitezlava Kapralova: Waving Farewell (Naxos)
The performances recorded here by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra speak directly to some of our present confusions
Letter from Washington: Same old special relationship
Neediness has defined US-UK relations for 80 years
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
The hardest word
The Catholic Church is resisting huge pressure to apologise for its involvement in indigenous cruelty
The guns of Brixton
I listened to somebody shoot a man twice in the head
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
Burning the books
Should writers be allowed to destroy their own work?