Dutch Golden Age
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (and old) Man
The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall