Civilisation

“Keir Giles suggests what the West’s policy towards Moscow should look like if it is to be guided by reality rather than hopes or a pretty dream”

“Airey Neave knew what it meant to fight for freedom, had cheated death many times during the war, and yet he would die a violent death during a time of peace”

“While priding himself on declaring that he knew nothing, the one topic Socrates was prepared to concede expertise in was love”

Hot and crowded. That is the conventional wisdom on what Planet Earth will be like in the not-so-distant future. But the related question of how many of us there will be in 50 or 100 years matters too

“In a savage and subtle critique of historical self-regard, Robert Crowcroft brilliantly sums up the problem with Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy”

“If Trump is so flawed, if a man so wrong ends up being proved right on so many issues, should we not question how it is that we have formed our opinions in the first place?”

There is little consolation to be gleaned from the bare facts of dementia. But Nicci Gerrard has found much to cheer us by delving beneath and beyond the grim statistics to find meaning in misery

The Scots, Welsh and Irish have an authentic tradition of folk songs. England demonstrably does not

One name dominates the art market, with his paintings soaring in value and remaining a solid investment

The classic Tartuffe transposed to Highgate provides a witty commentary on post-crash London