Harold Bloom
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine