Stonehenge
The suburbanisation of Stonehenge
Spiritual clichés offer no more than mere commerce
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives