Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell

Articulate with cross-generational appeal: Graham Stewart wonders if this non-politician could take on the Scots Nats

Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values

Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe

A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?

A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race

Nick Cohen salutes J.K. Rowling, whose latest work reflects her burning sense of justice and refusal to take the easy route

In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does

Joseph Connolly had never suffered a day’s illness — until he was felled by a “very unglamorous stroke”

Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition