School
An educational dystopia
Finland’s persistent myth and the reality of progressive education
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
An island for asylum
Is the Home Office serious about sending asylum seekers to a British island?
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
Jordan: The coup that wasn’t
The strength of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy is a precious thing — and one which only gets its due in rare moments of turmoil
The questionable innocence of Pontius Pilate
Steve Morris argues that this new book about Pontius Pilate helps us understand the limits of state and law
The Polish perspective
Why has the history of Poland, what was a large country, an important economy and an interesting polity, been marginalised by historians?
Carlos and Me
Following Carlos Menem’s recent passing, David Smith remembers his relationship with the bold and cunning politician
The pride of the Republic of Poland
The President of Poland celebrates 230 years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Constitution of 3 May 1791
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”