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We must pay for cathedrals of knowledge if scientists are to solve the great mysteries of the universe

Christianity is central to British identity, but its marginalisation has created a moral vacuum which radical Islam threatens to fill

Family courts are putting parents on trial for their children. Instead of helping to keep families together, these secretive tribunals are breaking them apart—often for trivial reasons

Most of us, thankfully, still have relatively little direct experience of violent crime, although everyone but the most sheltered now suffers death by a thousand anti-social cuts, and the implicit threat they carry.

The Standing Pool by Adam Thorpe

No novelist since Stevenson imparts so much energy into simple-seeming sentences through inch-perfect phrasing and punctuation

Anti-American sarcasm has crept into his work like a cancer, eating away at its integrity

After a six-year gap, the tenor returns to his first love, singing the Evangelist in both the St Matthew and the St John Passions with Bernard Haitink

The Left has lost its monopoly, but new political plays like Brenton’s Never So Good still reveal a tin ear for language

Liverpool is staging the UK’s first comprehensive exhibition of the work of the great Austrian avant-garde artist, Gustav Klimt