History
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
We need to talk about Holocaust issues, but also remember righteous heroes
Marking the European Day of the Righteous, the Polish Ambassador to the UK says that public debate on the Holocaust must remember the praiseworthy acts of righteous people
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RRS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Monuments to self-expression
Serenhedd James finds folly and ruin frequently go together in Rory Fraser’s new release: Follies
When in doubt, do nothing
Attempting to stifle scandals only makes them more lethal, says Nigel Jones
A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Hurst Castle could have been saved
Following the collapse of the sixteenth-century sea fort, Brice Stratford says that the disaster was completely avoidable
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
What could Harry and Meghan learn from history?
Have the Duke and Duchess of Sussex traded short-term PR advantage for the sake of their future reputations?
BBC iPlayer’s liberal conspiracy theory
Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment