Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human

The Narnia author deserves to be remembered as a seer and a sage

The cerebral Old Etonian podcaster might be a deep thinker and was possibly even a spy but he lacks the substance to be a great political leader

The “bohemian efficiency” of the unit that has honed the political skills of generations of Conservative big beasts

Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success

In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb

Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer

An insider’s guide to a premiership cut short

A flawed book by a Remainer may offer a crucial answer

A traumatised victim was interrogated in secret by republicans, let down by a botched prosecution and smeared in the pages of the Guardian