Features

A Valhalla of remembrance

The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?

Thirty years on: blood and hatred in the Balkans

Adam LeBor recalls terror and surreal moments of calm in Eastern Europe

Doing Burlington dirty

The Government’s is hounding distinguished societies from their prestigious premises

Schoolboy error

The folly of public schools’ race to embrace the religion of wokeness

Big Mac and fries matter

Michael Collins on the issue-led rehabilitation of a fast food giant

All double dutch

Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka

Hot air

Climate change targets are rising at a dangerous rate

Publish — or be damned

There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed

Back to the future

The new Great British Railways should abolish the garish sweet shop designs of today’s trains and look to the glorious liveries of the past

Stavropol, South Russia: In Search of Gorbachev’s Roots

The origins of a soviet leader revered as a visionary reformer in the west, but reviled as a weak American puppet in his native land