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

South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state

Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual

The BBC is still mired in liberal groupthink

In search of Crusaders in chainmail and a city of the dead in the Caucasus Mountains

Middle class millennials in search of the good life

Robin Ashenden whiled away a forced sojourn in Georgia by feasting on the back catalogue of Desert Island Discs and compiling a list of his favourite guests