Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon

Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton

Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?

The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close

As Coronation Street celebrates its diamond jubilee, is it time to take it seriously as the chronicler of our times?

British philosophy has become much more interesting, but they just don’t make philosophers like they used to

You will either feel very relaxed by the middle of the piece or you will throw things at the wall and say some very bad words

Contemporary feminist art theory: little help in understanding a seventeenth century artist

The new edition of Tom Harper’s ‘Atlas: A World of Maps’ is an instructive as well as attractive volume

Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons