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There is little wonder the Government is falling so dismally short of its tree-planting targets

The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated

While few Germans lament the loss of their own emperors and kings, they admire the British idea of monarchy

Harriet Harman’s drive for equal rights has resulted in the divisive identity politics that so alienates traditional working-class Labour voters

The president’s inflammatory rhetoric is informed by two centuries of Russian nationalist thought centring on a distrust of Europe and a mission to recover all the lands of “Ancient Rus”

Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity

Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality

Kurt Vonnegut at 100

Britain has never warmed to Rubens, whose finest works can be seen in Antwerp

The great man’s peerless poetry is not the “soppy stuff” of cheap romanticism, but a harsh, unsparing — and often beautiful — look at the world