A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts

The revival of Jerusalem reminds us of a still-forgotten England

Twinkly-eyed twentieth century mischief makers have crashed out of fashion

Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents

Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal

English nationalism is a paper dragon

Fierce rivalries in a shared sport

Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united

Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying

Graham Cunningham asks why Englishness has failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations