Austro-Hungarian Empire
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics