Mass Protests
An exhibition at Lambeth Palace reveals how the modern cult of progress prevents its acolytes from appreciating the value of religion
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Victorian Bibliophiles
Dickens and Eliot may have longed for the 19th century equivalent of a Kindle, but they also knew when to judge a book by its cover
Latvia’s Lost World
Jean-Paul Kaufmann's A Journey to Nowhere recounts how a student love affair led him to discover Courland, the Latvian peninsula with a troubled history and elusive identity
Norman Wisdom
The Normans embellished Saxon churches but they also built their own, and there is nowhere better to admire their artistry than Herefordshire
War Games
Despite being a keen chess player, Napoleon Bonaparte was more a pawn than a king on the board
Israel Left Behind
‘The seriousness of a left-wing movement in today’s Europe can be measured by its stance towards Israel’
Au Revoir Les Clercs
It may seem like the French belletrist is a dying breed, but the modern-day public intellectual has always been something of a myth
Bigotry or Dissent?
As dissenters are labelled bigots and homophobes in the same-sex marriage debate; has Britain become too intolerant for free speech?
Bowled Over
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places In 1895, Winston Churchill, then a journalist covering the uprising against Spanish rule, made an optimistic prediction
Our Island Stories
A new book by Harry Mount attributes the particular, phlegmatic character of the English to the nature of England itself
Metro Madrassa
Final orders called at London Metropolitan. How far will a university go to mollify an intolerant minority?
Jihad Central
As Robert S. Leiken argues in his brilliant new book, Britain's lost confidence in nationhood has made it the centre of European jihadism