Science needn’t be difficult and dull, but we must inspire people with its wonders

Woefully out of touch and with falling congregations, the Church of England faces a crisis of leadership and theology

Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity

A trip to Afghanistan to report on the destruction of the opium crop almost resulted in death

The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist

How will society be changed by the over-production of female graduates?

Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable

The professionals “guilty” of failing to accept the medicalisation of vulnerable children

Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason