Anne Boleyn
Gardening is racist
Uprooting hate in the garden, fighting balance at the BBC and cancelling a racist ambassador
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality
An unfinished masterpiece
One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up
A very modern monarch
Rakib’s Britain: The Queen has been a powerful force for unity in a rapidly changing and multicultural Britain
The UN must not ignore Afghan religious minorities
They live under the threat of elimination
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation