Dominic Hilton on the Instagram influencers in his plaza, conversations with his mother and a terrible death on the streets near his home

How Aperture 2025, the Academy’s new set of equality and diversity regulations, will ultimately stifle creativity

The search engine that tells you if you are descended from slave owners

The poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies

The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza

Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic

Don’t look a gift train in the mouth

With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem

Bad policies and the ‘twilight of democracy’ are not the same thing

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role of the queen in British and European history