Features

A new, faster and less deferential media is springing up to replace the old guard

The success of the West has been seized upon by the rationalist right but is riddled with gaps and discrepancies

For all the talk of body positivity, the pressure on women to be ultra-thin has not waned

Theatre is being turned into a parasitic secondary art form

Resurrecting the lost art of the painter-stainers

Those who now declare Israel’s “strategic defeat” aren’t paying enough attention

Mercurius Cantabrigiensis laments the bias in the public appointments system

Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers

The chequered history of Europe’s monarchs and dictators

Denied the chance to play his comedy idol in a biopic, the Alan Partridge star has found another way