‘Bernard-Henry Lévy and I debated populism, with Tony Blair as our warm-up act, at Google’s Zeitgeist event’

‘Conservative HQ has blocked the selection of prominent Brexiteers in safe Tory seats’

‘Whatever else they stand for, friends of the Jewish Left shouldn’t be standing at this election  against non-Jewish MPs, who have been brave and vocal in the fight against anti-Semitism, in order to put Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10’

‘Liberals are largely to blame for the normalisation and widespread nature of the new censorship. Now they are being targeted’

The departing former Conservative MP reflects on his 34 years in the Commons

The Labour MP who has represented Edgbaston for 20 years also bids farewell with a warning to her party of tough times ahead

The critic F.R. Leavis deserves better

Forget 'best in the world' — the Berlin Philharmonic may not even be the best orchestra in Berlin

With Marxism again popular among some, could North Korea soon be in vogue?

The playwright Ronald Harwood is deservedly acclaimed, yet has never had a play staged at the National