Fourth Crusade
A stirring tale of delicious complexity
From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
