Baroness Stowell
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
