William Wallace
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
