Flooding
England reclaimed
How we became a nation of drainage engineers
The Sinking City
Beset by flooding and corruption, Venice is slowly falling into decline
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
