It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations

There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?

Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation

A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell

The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity

Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub

A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming

The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade

An ill-fated leadership campaign

Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist

Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership

The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes