Middle-age
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions