Natascha Engel delves into Marc Stears’s new book, and asks: is there anything in here that will help us rebuild the Red Wall without losing our big city majorities?

People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse

It’s a broad generalisation – but the author can only go off his extensive experiences bouncing between the developing and developed worlds

Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake

To truly achieve celebrity status and win a place in the nation’s affections you have to give up your political ambitions – just look at Ed Balls

The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena

Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television

Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck

In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes

Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market