The Civil Service’s utter determination not to do anything ministers ask of it makes the Government’s work tricky

Why does a country once regarded as a model of moderation and progressiveness now have the highest level of gun violence in Europe?

The striking similarities between the tired, unoriginal politics of our age and those of the turbulent 1970s

Hamas knew its unprecedented attack would provoke ferocious retaliation and hopes the violence spreads

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 sacrifi cedon 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