Viscount Montgomery
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
What the public think about the Rwanda Plan
Sunak is heading for a make or break vote for his government
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches