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Rod Dreher argues the west’s Orbán hysteria is absurd and that hungary is safe, civilised and democratic

The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council

With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common

The dash for wind energy is a generational folly that will see the nation’s economic future sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero

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