He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union

When big game doesn’t pay, it is replaced by cow and plough

How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation

Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse

It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll

Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return

Armed militias and pro-immigrant groups battle it out in Trump Wall land

A pioneering school ofers a new vision for South Africa’s failing education system

Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight

Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts