The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment

The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument

Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit

Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture

Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution

Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?

Relive the moments when music changed forever

Small human moments cut across the centuries

We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera