Jeremy Corbyn is riding high after an unexpectedly successful election campaign. But his party has more to do to attract Middle England 

Women in public life are routinely defined by emotions, men by creed. I’m not thin-skinned but we can do without this adjectival apartheid

Despite the attack at a London mosque, we must expose the jihadist lie that the West is Islamophobic and take pride in our open society

Nearly a million have fled their divided country since the 2003 invasion and the West has failed to provide the support they deserve

Donald Trump’s obsession with Europe paying its ‘fair share’ for Nato has undermined the common values that have upheld the organisation

Brexit has revived interest in Elizabethan England’s bitter religious divisions that pitted love of the Continent against loyalty to the Crown

The best way to understand the UK’s departure from the EU may be through the prism of ancient mythology. But which story to choose?

The debate between Sir Roger Scruton and Terry Eagleton enhances our national discourse

A lecture by Daniel Johnson

Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government tells the story of a place where revolutionaries came home and the revolution came to die