Features
Sacking of the libraries
Should libraries should sell historic manuscripts to solve short-term financial problems
All the things I have never done…
Joseph Connolly has never ridden a bike, drunk a pint of biiter or had a curry. Can you match his epic non-achievements?
A letter to Jesus
Frederic Raphael poses some pertinent questions to the son of God
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
Homes fit for a post-Covid world
Tim Abrahams asks whether the crisis will prompt builders to create the type of houses we need
Memoirs of a Microaggressor
Will Collins traces the aristocratic roots of the social justice warriors’ search for purity
Our human right to be kept in the dark
Andrew Tettenborn says we should be able to hear, read and say what we want without the threat of undemocratic human rights law
Lessons of Bosnian war and peace
I’m still haunted by a murderous conflict the Western world ignored until it was too late
Borderland: Europe’s Eastern faultline
Rising tensions over gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are fuelled by Erdogan’s dream of expanding Turkey’s borders
Joe should go back to school
Here’s how the new president can unite the country — and pick up votes