Constantinople
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
