When democratic leftists embrace illiberal ideologies, they normalise the fascism of the European New Right

The "Alternative Guide to the Universe" claims to offer bracingly fresh perspectives. In fact it gives us the opposite, and is all the more interesting for it.

Transport for London's development plans threaten a forgotten graveyard for paupers and prostitutes in south-east London

A visit to Andalucia, where unemployment is higher than it was almost anywhere in Europe in the Great Depression

David Jones’s service at the front inspired an epic poem about World War I, “In Parenthesis”. Long neglected, it is ripe for rediscovery

While it gives more credence to the naysayers than it should, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt excellently marshalls the evidence over the authorship of the bard's plays

The grand old towns of the south coast have certainly lost some of their former glory, but there is no reason why their best days should not be ahead of them

The great man of letters Charles Lamb was naturally shy — wine allowed him to shine on conversation. Sometimes, though, he would overindulge

Lothar Schmid was a great referee and a remarkable man: a former lawyer and grandmaster himself, he had the respect of even the respect of even the most temperamental of players

In praise of the author of the original Inferno, who ennobled not only the Italian language but all humanity