Features

Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa

Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for

Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first

We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban

Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania

The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success

Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house

Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture

On the outsize influence of small magazines

A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England