The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”

An author of seriously funny plays

Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent

The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege

The curious case of a carefully-tended article about a controversial academic

Can history teach us anything about growing Sino-American tension?

Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era

The paranoid war on “disinformation” at the heart of the Government’s pandemic response

The balance of resolve favours Russia

Most modern feminists blithely ignore the exploitation of less-privileged women