Abraham Lincoln
Dishonest Abe
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
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools